Family Units

The family is the core unit in a world built on units, built up from units.

Wikipedia defines family as: Family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Ideally, families offer predictability, structure, and safety as members mature and learn to participate in the community. Historically, most human societies use family as the primary purpose of attachment, nurturance, and socialization.

Blended Family
Conjugal (nuclear) Family
Extended Family
Family of Choice
Matrifocal Family
Monogamous Family
Multigenerational Family
Polygamous Family
Single-parent Family
Step Family
The Family Adventure

Blended Family

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Type of wisdom (purple box)
E = Evolutionary wisdom
R = Revealed wisdom
H = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)

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**CLASSIFICATION**
A	A	A	A

**JURISDICTION**
soil	Land	Sea	AIR

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Conjugal (nuclear) Family

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Type of wisdom (purple box)
E = Evolutionary wisdom
R = Revealed wisdom
H = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)

Target audience (green box)
P = Personal
G = Group (non-personal)

Reliability factor of content (blue box)
1 = High
2 = Average
3 = Low
X = Cannot be determined.

APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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**CLASSIFICATION**
A	A	A	A

**JURISDICTION**
soil	Land	Sea	AIR

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Extended Family

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Type of wisdom (purple box)
E = Evolutionary wisdom
R = Revealed wisdom
H = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)

Target audience (green box)
P = Personal
G = Group (non-personal)

Reliability factor of content (blue box)
1 = High
2 = Average
3 = Low
X = Cannot be determined.

APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[ ] soil [ ] Land [ ] Sea [ ] AIR

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**CLASSIFICATION**
A	A	A	A

**JURISDICTION**
soil	Land	Sea	AIR

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Family of Choice

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Type of wisdom (purple box)
E = Evolutionary wisdom
R = Revealed wisdom
H = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)

Target audience (green box)
P = Personal
G = Group (non-personal)

Reliability factor of content (blue box)
1 = High
2 = Average
3 = Low
X = Cannot be determined.

APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[ ] soil [ ] Land [ ] Sea [ ] AIR

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**CLASSIFICATION**
A	A	A	A

**JURISDICTION**
soil	Land	Sea	AIR

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Matrifocal Family

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Type of wisdom (purple box)
E = Evolutionary wisdom
R = Revealed wisdom
H = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)

Target audience (green box)
P = Personal
G = Group (non-personal)

Reliability factor of content (blue box)
1 = High
2 = Average
3 = Low
X = Cannot be determined.

APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[ ] soil [ ] Land [ ] Sea [ ] AIR

Check boxes indicate to which planetary jurisdiction the contents of the page is applicable.
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**CLASSIFICATION**
A	A	A	A

**JURISDICTION**
soil	Land	Sea	AIR

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Monogamous Family

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Type of wisdom (purple box)
E = Evolutionary wisdom
R = Revealed wisdom
H = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)

Target audience (green box)
P = Personal
G = Group (non-personal)

Reliability factor of content (blue box)
1 = High
2 = Average
3 = Low
X = Cannot be determined.

APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[ ] soil [ ] Land [ ] Sea [ ] AIR

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Monogamy is the yardstick

**CLASSIFICATION**
R	P	O	1

**JURISDICTION**
soil	Land	Sea	AIR

SOURCE: Urantia Book 83:6.7

Monogamy is the yardstick which measures the advance of social civilization as distinguished from purely biologic evolution. Monogamy is not necessarily biologic or natural, but it is indispensable to the immediate maintenance and further development of social civilization. It contributes to a delicacy of sentiment, a refinement of moral character, and a spiritual growth which are utterly impossible in polygamy. A woman never can become an ideal mother when she is all the while compelled to engage in rivalry for her husband's affections.

Multigenerational Family

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Type of wisdom (purple box)
E = Evolutionary wisdom
R = Revealed wisdom
H = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)

Target audience (green box)
P = Personal
G = Group (non-personal)

Reliability factor of content (blue box)
1 = High
2 = Average
3 = Low
X = Cannot be determined.

APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[ ] soil [ ] Land [ ] Sea [ ] AIR

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**CLASSIFICATION**
A	A	A	A

**JURISDICTION**
soil	Land	Sea	AIR

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Polygamous Family

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Type of wisdom (purple box)
E = Evolutionary wisdom
R = Revealed wisdom
H = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)

Target audience (green box)
P = Personal
G = Group (non-personal)

Reliability factor of content (blue box)
1 = High
2 = Average
3 = Low
X = Cannot be determined.

APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[ ] soil [ ] Land [ ] Sea [ ] AIR

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Spiritual growth is utterly impossible in polygamy

**CLASSIFICATION**
R	P	O	1

**JURISDICTION**
soil	Land	Sea	AIR

SOURCE: Urantia Book 83:6.7

Single-parent Family

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Type of wisdom (purple box)
E = Evolutionary wisdom
R = Revealed wisdom
H = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)

Target audience (green box)
P = Personal
G = Group (non-personal)

Reliability factor of content (blue box)
1 = High
2 = Average
3 = Low
X = Cannot be determined.

APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[ ] soil [ ] Land [ ] Sea [ ] AIR

Check boxes indicate to which planetary jurisdiction the contents of the page is applicable.
Can apply to one or more jurisdictions simultaneously.
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**CLASSIFICATION**
A	A	A	A

**JURISDICTION**
soil	Land	Sea	AIR

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Step Family

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Type of wisdom (purple box)
E = Evolutionary wisdom
R = Revealed wisdom
H = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)

Target audience (green box)
P = Personal
G = Group (non-personal)

Reliability factor of content (blue box)
1 = High
2 = Average
3 = Low
X = Cannot be determined.

APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[ ] soil [ ] Land [ ] Sea [ ] AIR

Check boxes indicate to which planetary jurisdiction the contents of the page is applicable.
Can apply to one or more jurisdictions simultaneously.
All the applicable jurisdictions will have a check mark.
For additional information about the scope of these jurisdictions please refer to this chart.
For additional information about the properties of these jurisdictions please refer to this chart.

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**CLASSIFICATION**
A	A	A	A

**JURISDICTION**
soil	Land	Sea	AIR

SOURCE:

The Family Adventure

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Type of wisdom (purple box)
E = Evolutionary wisdom
R = Revealed wisdom
H = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)

Target audience (green box)
P = Personal
G = Group (non-personal)

Reliability factor of content (blue box)
1 = High
2 = Average
3 = Low
X = Cannot be determined.

APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[ ] soil [ ] Land [ ] Sea [ ] AIR

Check boxes indicate to which planetary jurisdiction the contents of the page is applicable.
Can apply to one or more jurisdictions simultaneously.
All the applicable jurisdictions will have a check mark.
For additional information about the scope of these jurisdictions please refer to this chart.
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The family begins the adventure

**CLASSIFICATION**
R	P	O	1

**JURISDICTION**
soil	Land	Sea	AIR

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tmtranscripts Lightline Teleconference 2024-08-08

Teacher: Amanson

T/R: Mark Turnbull

https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmtranscripts/8A828B3A-7A1F-4DA7-8F6D-CFC2DAFA3854%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer

Oct. 3, 2022

Tonight let us speak on the family – the core unit in a world built on units, built up from units.

The family begins the adventure, and as each member of the unit matures so does the unit as a whole. Each member has a responsibility to the whole (something that is lost on many members in these modern times) and each responsibility adds up to a complete and vibrant whole, a measure of completion in a tipping and unsteady world.

When a member of a family has a thorough grounding in the culture of the family it extends out into the society at large – an even bigger family unit – and that individual can then serve the good of the order (as they say) because of this previous grounding in the smaller basic unit. A family is the society (nee, the world) in embryo, so any disquiet or disruption in these initial phases and experiences of interaction with parents and siblings will be felt like ripples throughout one’s life and throughout the society – the bigger family – at large.

A family’s main ingredient is Love. Family was invented, devised, created to be a cauldron, a living forge, of the world’s alter ego, Love. When Love is in the foreground of any familial arrangement, though there be disagreements and plays for territory within the confines of the personalities involved, Love will in the end bring all to their senses as long as Love has been the basis from the beginning of all the family’s dealings. But when the darker energies take charge, when egos and fear and unbridled desires step to the foreground and twist and distort the basic commonwealth of Love ruling a family, these unraveling influences will take root, causing not only travail within the four walls of the home but, as was said, extending deep into the business, the workings of society, and much time, good will, and valuable friendship is lost.

Now there is much talk of the nuclear family, the one man, one woman plus children traditional formation. And this has served and will continue to serve mankind and the planet well. But society is changing and, believe it or not, Love can keep up! If new formations are asking to be born, as long as Love rules the roost, much leeway should be granted. Who knows what new beneficial situations shall be born, shall unfold? God, Creation, is not a static vibration. All creation is vibrant, holy, when it is commanded in Love. If Love can be the nexus of a new type of family unit – hitherto odd components – and if that new, shall we say ‘expanded’ family unit can be met from the outside with the same amount and quality of Love displayed on the inside, what’s to lose? Nothing but perhaps some old evidently outdated ideas! Time – and Love – will tell. Everyone needs – and deserves – a chance in this world. And the family, however it may be constituted, is where such a chance – the chance that God gives all his creatures – begins.

Viva la familia! (did you know I speak Spanish?!) It is all Love. It is all Family. We just need to acknowledge that this is so. And such acknowledgement begins at home. No matter how one chooses to define the word. As long as it is spelled, just as it has always been, L-O-V-E.