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Family Good afternoon everyone! I am Lauren. Its my great honor to be here to give my speech to you. The title of my speech today is Family. “Family”,what a warm word. Every time I think of it, Ill feel that my body is full of energy and that no matter what has happened to me, I can still move on optimisticly. I think that most of people have the same feeling as me and we all have great affection for our family. But ladies and gentlemen, do you really understand the meaning of the family?George Santayana once said, “The family is one of natures masterpieces.” First of all, as we all know, the simple word “family” represents that father and mother I love you. When we are little children, we used to express our love to our parents frequently by this sentence. However, when we grow up, seldom do we say it to them because we feel awkward to express our love directly to our parents. But we know that we never stop love them and love our family.I think family means more. To different people , the word may have different meanings.To me, firstly, I think it means duty.Not as the same size as the common Chinese family, there are four members in my family; father, mother, my little brother and I.Now, let me introduce my parents to you. My father is a tall man, who is a foreman that supervises others when they are working. My morther is a beautiful lady, who is a shopkeeper that has a small store. For the most part of the year, my father has to work far away from home. And I can only meet him few times except holidays during a year because basically, I am in school and my father is too busy to come back home frequently. As I have introduced to you, I have a little brother who is only 8 years old, so the burden that my parents bear on their shoulders to bring up our family is much heavier.Being the main breadwinner in ou family, my father has to go to different places to get the work to earn money to support our family.Father once told me that “Its mans duty.” I dont know what it mean because I was young at that moment. But now I can understand it profoundly.“A king realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither.” I think the sentence that Marlene Dietrich said is really profound opinion .So, in my opinion, duty is the essential part of a family.Secondly, I think family means protection. When we are in our childhood, we used to let our little hand be hold by our parents and what we need to do was just follow in the footsteps of them happily. We all know that its easy for a little child to feel afraid of everything unknown, so we always want to be with their parents. We want them to protect us against anything harmful to us. We know that the place where they stay in is certain to be the safest place.“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”Virginia Stair said.Home is the best place in the world. And Family is the warmest word in the world. We ask for much from our family when we are young, but now most of us have been the adult, so it is time for everyone of us who talk about family values to start valuing families