The family is a system. Involvement of all members is essential to change the system. The major focus of the Nurturing Program is to build empathy among all family members. Empathy is the ability to be aware of the needs of others and to vaule those needs. All Parenting exists on a continuum.
All families experience healthy and unhealthy interactions to some degree.
Building positive, healthy interactions between family members is an important key to a happy family. Adults who feel good about themselves as men and women stand a better chance of being nurturing parents. Children and adolescents who feel good about themselves as boys and girls are more capable of being nurtuing sons and daughters. Given a choice, all families would rather display happy, healthy interactions.