Managing Your Career with Estelle H. Rauch, LSCW, CGPThe current hostile political climate is having its impact on the family, as Dad (or maybe Mom) intensely is supportive of "tea party" conservatism, while the other adult passionately pontificates for the health care bill and other liberal causes. Their kids are caught in the middle. Who's "right," they wonder?
It's a wonderful time for calm to prevail, and for the adults to acknowledge that complex issues are impossible to define in black and white, right vs. wrong terms. We were once a nation where such perspectives was possible. These days, only rarely can a friend who is on one side appreciate the other's point of view.
As a therapist working with couples and families, I have opted for an appreciation of the other, without which families cannot possibly come together for what should be their key objective: collaboration for the common good.
Countries are multiple families, of course with vastly more complexities. But countries should still be guided by the same motivation: respect for difference in their collaboration for the common good.
We may have temporarily lost our way, much like the couple who comes to see me, furious over some issue or other. As with that couple, there is room for optimism.
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