Family

Cheaper by the Dozen may be a funny adventure story about the lifestyle of a crazy family of 12 children, an irritable father, and a collected mother, but it is alos much, much more. The story itself was most likely written to illustrate the importance of family in the lives of all human beings. Family is a support system of people who love and care for one another. In a loving family, anyone can go to anyone else for help or support when one is approached with any problem whatsoever. Everything that was once difficult, becomes that much easier when family is there to fall back on. In Cheaper by the Dozen, the crazy family of 14 is held together by such an intense bond, that even the most insanely unpredictable disaster could never tear them apart. Although larger families are more chaotic, they are just as close as smaller families. Because larger families are just as tightly-knit as smaller families, they are stronger overall. Tearing apart any section of a large family, even a family of 14, would cause just as big of a problem as the loss of an only child from a family of 3. In fact, it may even cause more damage, because losing a member of a family of 14 would affect the other 13 members of the family just as powerfully.

In Cheaper by the Dozen there many times during which members of the Gilbreth famaily decide that they would rather have nothing to do with the rest of their family than deal with the chaos and irritation. However, after the specific family member breaks away from the clan, he or she return moments later in the story deciding that he or she needs the family, even if the family is driving him or her absolutely crazy. No matter how hard we all try to run away from our parents or our siblings, we will always need them in our lives. Family is one of the most essential apects in the world. From our family, our values are born, and we choose how we think, talk, walk, and appeal to others. Family is, essentially, the infrastructure on which each and every one of us builds our respective lives.