LH .... I agree. What has shaped myself is directly due to my family. My wife Ann and I also try to keep our family unit together. But take a look around. How many families now days are actually a cohesive unit.
but ... times are changing. The family farm, the family business are becoming a thing of the past. For a business to thrive in the way of maximum profits, or even to exist is to incorporate. It has been replaced by such large entities such as Google, Haliburton, and they even have their own police force Blackwater, whose jurisdiction is the world.
It's a corporate world, fully removed from the basic needs of the family. The biggest threat to human civility and peace is not the Taliban, Hammas or whatever, it is the coporation. Corporations expend human values by layoffs. Corporations ignite excessive greed which many will sacrifice their family unit for meaningless want. Layoffs destroy human values by causing want and despair which in itself breaks down the family unit.