What does "pro-family" mean?

Question

I've seen the terminology "pro-family" used in this category usually in regards to bio families. Can't pro-family also include adoptive families?

Why or why not?

Answer 1

I think most of us here ,if not all, are pro-family. There are biological families, adoptive families, and blended families..... I'm starting to sound like Bubba Gump.

A family is a family.

Yep, I'm pro-family and proud of it!

Answer 2

I totally agree that family should not be defined as "only those that have the same DNA as me."

Adoptive families are definitely families, and should not be treated any differently than families that are biologically related.

Answer 3

For me, "pro-family" has always meant in support of family - regardless of how it is formed.  I would consider myself pro-family, and I am an adoptive mom.

Answer 4

Thought Family was anyone who was Family... Living together and meeting each others needs...

***Added: Sorry It was time to help a little one out of the tub...

Pro-Family applies to adoptive families every bit as much as it does any other family...

We ARE Currently Receiving the HIGHEST Level of Family Preservation Services from our state.....and none of it is welfare, medicaid, or has to do with money--because we don't need any money...

We receive the Highest level of family Preservation Services because we adopted a VERY Special Needs Child and Would Like to be able to keep her in our Home with us and Not locked up in a Mental Hospital or Residential Treatment Center....

Answer 5

In my opinion, since this is what that whole question earlier was based on and that line of thinking is about (that family must include DNA sharing) - personal opinions and experiences - family is family, DNA sharing or not.

Thanks for your question . . .

Answer 6

to me, when people say pro-family, they are usually meaning pro- traditional family. i.e. one man and one women.

not a homosexual family unit such as two men or two women.

Answer 7

To me, family has always been EXTREMELY important to me, that's why I want one of my own..

But, though my family happened to be 100% biologically related, I have never felt that this was what made us a "family".. it is the fact that my brother and I grew up together, the fact that My mom raised us and loved us, the fact that my father (MHRIP) tried his darnedest to be a good father and a good man,  and considered us the two most important things in his life, and stayed married to mom until the day he died...... THAT, that made us a "family," not DNA..