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== Family, the Culmination of Love == | == Family, the Culmination of Love == | ||
[[file:2007 Snow-Hill-Island Luyten-De-Hauwere-Emperor-Penguin-109.jpg |thumb | 250px | Emperor penguin family]] | [[file:2007 Snow-Hill-Island Luyten-De-Hauwere-Emperor-Penguin-109.jpg |thumb | 250px | Emperor penguin family]] | ||
Family is the culmination of love. A home is a place where a couple who have been married through love, give birth to children, and raise them with love. Love between family members—marital love, paternal love, maternal love, brotherly love, and filial love—is the main virtue of a happy life.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/this-harvard-study-reveals-how-you-can-be-happier-and-more-successful.html#:~:text=The%20ongoing%20Harvard%20study%20is,said%20in%20the%20TED%20Talk. |title=Harvard’s longest study of adult life reveals how you can be happier and more successful |website=CNBC |date=October 31, 2017 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref> Parents’ love for their children is unconditional, and it is common for animals as well. Spiny fish and emperor penguins have strong paternal love. A father spiny fish supplies fresh oxygen to his eggs, and fights with invaders, without eating anything for fifteen days. When the eggs hatch, he runs out of energy and dies. The dead father becomes food for the hatched young.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/animal/stickleback |title=Stickleback |website=Britannica |date= |author= |page= |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.penguinsinternational.org/2019/08/14/penguin-parenting-super-parents/ |title=Penguins and Their Chicks: Super-Parents |website=Penguins International |date=August 14, 2019 |author= |page= |quote= }}</ref> A father emperor penguin incubates his egg for about two months. He stops eating and protects the egg from the severe cold of -60°C [-76°F] and predators. Maternal love is commonly observed in birds and mammals. | Family is the culmination of love. A home is a place where a couple who have been married through love, give birth to children, and raise them with love. Love between family members—marital love, paternal love, maternal love, brotherly love, and filial love—is the main virtue of a happy life.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/this-harvard-study-reveals-how-you-can-be-happier-and-more-successful.html#:~:text=The%20ongoing%20Harvard%20study%20is,said%20in%20the%20TED%20Talk. |title=Harvard’s longest study of adult life reveals how you can be happier and more successful |website=CNBC |date=October 31, 2017 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref> Parents’ love for their children is unconditional, and it is common for animals as well. [https://www.fishbase.se/summary/24828 Spiny fish] and [https://www.britannica.com/animal/emperor-penguin emperor penguins] have strong paternal love. A father spiny fish supplies fresh oxygen to his eggs, and fights with invaders, without eating anything for fifteen days. When the eggs hatch, he runs out of energy and dies. The dead father becomes food for the hatched young.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/animal/stickleback |title=Stickleback |website=Britannica |date= |author= |page= |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.penguinsinternational.org/2019/08/14/penguin-parenting-super-parents/ |title=Penguins and Their Chicks: Super-Parents |website=Penguins International |date=August 14, 2019 |author= |page= |quote= }}</ref> A father emperor penguin incubates his egg for about two months. He stops eating and protects the egg from the severe cold of -60°C [-76°F] and predators. Maternal love is commonly observed in birds and mammals. | ||
Not only small living creatures, but also human beings, who have intelligence, follow their instincts instead of reasoning when it comes to the danger of their children. There are media reports about parents who gave up their lives to save their children: a mother who died after refusing anticancer therapy for a baby in her womb, a father who held her son in her arms in a crashing cable car, a mother who was sacrificed after pushing her child out in front of an oncoming truck, and so on.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/nation-world/2011/10/16/oklahoma-cancer-patient-trades-her-life-so-her-baby-could-survive/61126593007/ |title=Oklahoma cancer patient trades her life so her baby could survive |website=THE OKLAHOMAN |publisher= |date=October 16, 2011 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/17/eitan-biran-the-cable-car-crash-survivor-at-centre-of-custody-battle |title=Eitan Biran: the cable car crash survivor at centre of custody battle |website=Support the Guardian |publisher= |date=September 17, 2021 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.busan.com/view/busan/view.php?code=20130508000181 |title= | Not only small living creatures, but also human beings, who have intelligence, follow their instincts instead of reasoning when it comes to the danger of their children. There are media reports about parents who gave up their lives to save their children: a mother who died after refusing anticancer therapy for a baby in her womb, a father who held her son in her arms in a crashing cable car, a mother who was sacrificed after pushing her child out in front of an oncoming truck, and so on.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/nation-world/2011/10/16/oklahoma-cancer-patient-trades-her-life-so-her-baby-could-survive/61126593007/ |title=Oklahoma cancer patient trades her life so her baby could survive |website=THE OKLAHOMAN |publisher= |date=October 16, 2011 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/17/eitan-biran-the-cable-car-crash-survivor-at-centre-of-custody-battle |title=Eitan Biran: the cable car crash survivor at centre of custody battle |website=Support the Guardian |publisher= |date=September 17, 2021 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.busan.com/view/busan/view.php?code=20130508000181 |title= | ||