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What's of the "family being"?

This is a study based on the heideggerian phenomenologyc philosophy, whose aim is to reveal the structural elements that create the existence of the "family being". The methodological path of this article was built fundamentally based on Heidegger's work.. The family data were taken from interviews and observations. Each one of us contributes to the existence of the family, and this makes it possible to develop our "being in the world" when living and sharing daily family experiences. That is where the existential possibility of sharing in a personal manner, a manner of being in the world, a manner of caring to "be family in the world" arises. A world which produces this relationship unity which emerges from interlinked feelings among the components, responding to personal demands by means of the feeling of primarian belonging generated in them. This unity gives the possibility of born to each one of us, gives us the possibility of being humans beings, succeeding in being its own referential in every human being.

Family; Family health; Family relations


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