What is the definition of family? According to dictionary.com, it is a fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children.However, I think this is a rather cold and detached definition. A family, I think not only should consist of one or both parents and their children, but these family members should also share an affinity and affliation with one another. What is a family without familiar feelings of kinship, skinship and parent-child bonding or bonding between siblings?

I feel sad for my young tutee. It is bad enough that he comes from a single-parent home, with the mother being the sole bread winner. But it is worse that he lives with two adult siblings. Each of these three children in the house including my tutee, lead seperate lives. I do understand that in this circumstance, the mother is not to be blamed. After all, she has to compromise something since she can't be both a fulltime mother to her children, or a working individual bringing home the bread and butter everyday and ensuring that her children live as comfortably as possible. Logically thinking, the resposibility then falls on the eldest child to keep the family together. Either that, or someone else in the family have to then take charge and see to the other's needs. Unfortunately, this is not the case with my tutee. He comes home to an empty house everyday. Even though his siblings may be at home, they lock themselves in their own rooms and emerge only for meals.

Well, I have something against the eldest asshole in the family, if you're wondering what this post is about. He's waiting to enlist into the army. But while they haven't called him up for service yet, he isn't working either. I feel the utmost disdain for this particular asshole. He doesn't work,he doesn't laze around the house the whole day either. He goes out quite often since I don't see him around most of the time. From what I picked up, he still gets pocket money from his bread winner mother. How the hell can someone be so insensitive and thick-skinned I don't understand. The least one could do in such a circumstance is to find some job to do and earn some extra money on one's own. It is amazing how one can totally abandon the idea of a family and go around gallavanting on the streets with the mother's hard-earned money in one's pockets. It is not my business to care. But I feel sad for my tutee that he has to live with such an asshole of a brother.