Family Values

Family values are passed down from generations... always say please and thank you. Those are the more common values... but some values are evil that gets passed on down... like bigoty and hatred for those who are different.

Here are some family values both good and bad...

✅ Good Family Values That Get Passed Down

These often create strong, supportive, and resilient individuals:

• Respect – For elders, for others’ boundaries, for different perspectives.

• Kindness & Empathy – Teaching the importance of caring for others.

• Hard Work & Perseverance – Instilling a solid work ethic and resilience.

• Honesty – Encouraging truthfulness even when it’s difficult.

• Loyalty – Strong sense of connection to family or community.

• Responsibility – Owning up to actions and taking care of one’s duties.

• Gratitude – Appreciation for what one has, even if it’s not much.

• Faith or Spirituality – Providing a sense of meaning or guidance.

• Hospitality – Being generous and welcoming to others.

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⚠️ Unhealthy or Harmful Family Values That Can Be Inherited

These are often normalized within families but can perpetuate cycles of harm:

• Toxic Masculinity or Gender Roles – Limiting expression, emotion, or opportunity based on gender.

• Suppressing Emotions – Teaching that vulnerability is weakness.

• Racism, Sexism, or Prejudice – Subtle or overt biases that get passed down as “just the way things are.”

• Fear of Failure or Change – Instilling anxiety about risk or personal growth.

• Workaholism or Burnout Culture – Valuing achievement at the expense of health or relationships.

• Control or Authoritarianism – Belief that obedience is more important than understanding or dialogue.

• Shame-Based Morality – Using guilt and shame instead of compassion or guidance.

• Keeping Family Secrets – Hiding abuse, addiction, or trauma “for the family’s image.”

• “We Don’t Talk About That” Culture – Discouraging open conversations about mental health, sexuality, or conflict.

Do you see any of your family values? One of the things that gets passed along is discrimination.

The National Library of Medicine website PubMed has a research paper,

Intergenerational transmission of prejudice, sex role stereotyping, and intolerance

Megan O'Bryan 1, Harold D Fishbein, P Neal Ritchey

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PMID: 15673220

Abstract

The attitudes of 111 ninth and eleventh graders and both of their biological parents were independently assessed for prejudice against people with HIV/ AIDS, homosexuals, Blacks, and fat people, as well as for male and female sex role stereotyping. This study corrected for two shortcomings in previous research: neglecting to assess both parents and assessing only a single domain of prejudice. We addressed the intergenerational transmission of prejudice and stereotyping using three competing models: same-sex, parent equivalent, and differential effects. Using multiple regressions in which parents' scores were entered separately, along with control variables, different maternal and paternal influences were detected. Mothers were the primary influence for prejudice regarding HIV/AIDS, fatness, and race, and fathers were the primary influence for male and female stereotyping and prejudice against homosexuals, supporting the differential effects model. We also established that prejudice and stereotyping in specific domains reflected a more general proclivity to be intolerant. In contrast to prejudice and stereotyping in specific domains, fathers and mothers about equally shaped the adolescents' intolerance, supporting the parent equivalent model.

It is passed down from generation to generations, the question is how do you break that cycle?

In another PubMed article...

Educating for inclusion: Diversity education programs can reduce prejudice toward outgroups in Israel

Chagai M Weiss 1, Shira Ran 2, Eran Halperin 2 3

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PMID: 37040414 PMCID: PMC10119994 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2218621120

Abstract

Intergroup prejudice is pervasive in many contexts worldwide, leading to discrimination and conflict. Existing research suggests that prejudice is acquired at an early age and that durably improving intergroup relations is extremely challenging, often requiring intense interventions. Building on existing research in social psychology and inspired by the Israeli TV series "You Can't Ask That," which depicts charismatic children from minority groups broaching sensitive topics at the core of intergroup relations, we develop a month-long diversity education program. Our program exposed students to the TV series and facilitated follow-up classroom discussions in which students constructively addressed various sensitive topics at the core of intergroup relations and learned about intergroup similarities, intragroup heterogeneity, and the value of taking others' perspectives. Through two field experiments implemented in Israeli schools, we show that integrating our intervention into school curricula improved Jewish students' attitudes toward minorities and increased some pro-diversity behavior up to 13 wk posttreatment. We further provide suggestive evidence that the intervention was effective by encouraging students to take their outgroups' perspectives and address an element of scalability by delegating implementation responsibilities to classroom teachers in our second study. Our findings suggest that theoretically informed intensive education programs are a promising route to reducing prejudice at a young age.

Into that mix was thrown the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education! That court ruling ended segregation and the Republicans have been ever since looking for a way around it and they found it in "Vouchers" and the Supreme Court [Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)] backed them up when they ruled that you couldn't exempt religious schools from vouchers. Then in the court rulings that religious schools can discriminate against LGBTQ+ students, then just like that Brown v. Board of Education was circumvented!

The Republicans know when you learn or work along side of Blacks, Gays, Trans people you get to see us as a person. That is why Trump is banning DEI because they know that it breaks the family cycle of bigotry.