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||%blue%[[#fam]]famiglia [IT] ||%maroon%family ||%green% One Salesian reference is to the Salesian Family, but the other, more basic reference is to 'family spirit', especially that which had its historical origins in Valdocco with Mamma Margaret. However it is worth considering the use of the term 'family', at least in English (but not only), in the light of the path this term is following in society at large and amongst Salesians. ~~'Family' comes from the Latin ''familia'', which itself comes from ''famulus'', meaning 'servant'. In the earliest recorded uses in English, at~~ the ~~turn of the fifdteenth~~ century, 'family' reflected that background, meaning the servants of a house or the retinue of a nobleman. By Tudor times it had come to mean all the people living in a house, including parents and children as well as servants. It also meant all those descending from a common ancestor. This nuance is recorded as early as the fifteenth century, in Scotland, but was established in England by the time of Shakespeare. "Come they of noble family?" asks Henry V, rhetorically, of the conspirators against him. We use the word 'family' to denote a group consisting of parents and their children; they do not have to live under the same roof. That sense did not emerge until surprisingly late. The OED's first citation is from ''Paradise Lost'', published in 1667. Parents and children living together form a 'nuclear family', an expression coined in 1924 by the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, who believed it to be common to all cultures. He also coined 'extended family', some 20 years later. No family is more extended than 'the family', which is what members of the Mafia call the particular criminal fraternity to which they belong: they don't have to be blood relations. Interestingly the word also meant a criminal association in the eighteenth and nineteenth century English slang. J.H. Vaux's ''A New And Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language'', published in 1812 notes: "Thieves, sharpers, and all others who get their living upon the cross [ie dishonestly], are comprehended under the title of 'The Family'". 'Family' has long been used as an adjective, where it means not only pertaining to the domestic, as in 'family life', 'family matter', and 'family business', but also 'safe or 'unobjectionable'. 'Family entertainment' and 'family viewing' are first recorded in 1960, just as they were coming under threat from a new wave of liberalism. Such developments offend against 'family values', an American phrase that is a favourite of politicians of a conservative stamp. (Notes taken from The Tablet, 20 September 2008, p. 44). ||%purple% PGmanCapitolo 3:..Salesiana la comunità. Una comunità che coinvolge, in clima di famiglia, giovani e adulti, ||

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||%blue%[[#fam]]famiglia [IT] ||%maroon%family ||%green% One Salesian reference is to the Salesian Family, but the other, more basic reference is to 'family spirit', especially that which had its historical origins in Valdocco with Mamma Margaret. However it is worth considering the use of the term 'family', at least in English (but not only), in the light of the path this term is following in society at large and amongst Salesians. Essentially its use is extending and we must also bear in mind that it has negative connotations also. 'Family' comes from the Latin ''familia'', which itself comes from ''famulus'', meaning 'servant'. In the earliest recorded uses in English, at the turn of the fifteenth century, 'family' reflected that background, meaning the servants of a house or the retinue of a nobleman. By Tudor times it had come to mean all the people living in a house, including parents and children as well as servants. It also meant all those descending from a common ancestor. This nuance is recorded as early as the fifteenth century, in Scotland, but was established in England by the time of Shakespeare. "Come they of noble family?" asks Henry V, rhetorically, of the conspirators against him. We use the word 'family' to denote a group consisting of parents and their children; they do not have to live under the same roof. That sense did not emerge until surprisingly late. The OED's first citation is from ''Paradise Lost'', published in 1667. Parents and children living together form a 'nuclear family', an expression coined in 1924 by the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, who believed it to be common to all cultures. He also coined 'extended family', some 20 years later. No family is more extended than 'the family', which is what members of the Mafia call the particular criminal fraternity to which they belong: they don't have to be blood relations. Interestingly the word also meant a criminal association in the eighteenth and nineteenth century English slang. J.H. Vaux's ''A New And Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language'', published in 1812 notes: "Thieves, sharpers, and all others who get their living upon the cross [ie dishonestly], are comprehended under the title of 'The Family'". 'Family' has long been used as an adjective, where it means not only pertaining to the domestic, as in 'family life', 'family matter', and 'family business', but also 'safe or 'unobjectionable'. 'Family entertainment' and 'family viewing' are first recorded in 1960, just as they were coming under threat from a new wave of liberalism. Such developments offend against 'family values', an American phrase that is a favourite of politicians of a conservative stamp. (Notes taken from The Tablet, 20 September 2008, p. 44). ||%purple% PGmanCapitolo 3:..Salesiana la comunità. Una comunità che coinvolge, in clima di famiglia, giovani e adulti, ||