The Family Equation asks an important question about the nature and makeup of family. Indeed, the narrator asks, "What makes a family add up?" How we answer that question is most often based on our upbringing and our parent's values. Society and the culture in which we live provide some direction for our opinions as well as friends, extended family and any organizations to which we might belong, e.g., church. All of these influence how we view family and ultimately how it is defined.
What happens however, when our definition comes face-to-face with a contradiction? What do we think when that "contradiction" is happy and healthy...the state our definition would deny being possible? What do we do when the "contradiction" shares the same values and goals?
