Hapiness is Family?

Happiness is such a "big" word which can't be simply explained. In fact, I think that "to feel happy" involves many other feelings, and depends on the person. That's why I think that family doesn't necesarily make a child or person happy.

There's no doubt in the fact that family playes a very important and significant role in the life of a person, specially in Chile, where I think it's even overvalued. However, this is the reason why a person's home, where he or she can share with his or her family, becomes in some cases, a real unpleseant place to be in. In fact, in Chile we have plenty of cases of domestic violence which is a worrisome situation of course.

If family is such an important thing in Chile, we should take this fact and use it to improve our lifestyle. I believe that a good family which gives support to its members is not everything in life, but of course, it gives a lot. Perhaps, the problem is that we talk much about how important our familiy is, that we finally idealize it, but we actually don't realize that we are part of it and we have to do things to make our home a good place to live in.