There are no morals in "Family Meeting". There is a good and positive message at the end - one that is somewhat mandatory for a cheesy, feel-good story like this. This story is so frighteningly unrealistic and foreign to today's teenager that the moral is lost while we marvel at this perfect nuclear family with its 1950s dad and its cherubic, innocent seven-year-old girls. I cannot appreciate this story because its fabrication is so obvious; the boy's life is too Hollywood-esque. Nobody has the best friend next door anymore. Nobody EVER had family meetings. The nuclear family is disintegrating quickly as casual dating relationships are the rule, not the exception.
That said, the story is supposed to leave you feeling like you're the master or your fate and the captain of your soul; like all problems can be solved by talking about them; like a resolution to an issue, however superficial, should wipe away all bad feelings. I cannot apply these "morals" to my life or allow them to affect it in any way, because I do not believe in them. I do not believe that this family is real - nor do I believe that it should be. This family represents everything that the working man abhors. Their sense of democracy is flawed, their treatment of the family as a whole is passé, and the story itself is no more than a cliché meant to inspire unimaginative Christians who follow without vision - the ignorant Christian.
Thus, I refuse to accept this story as a Christian ideal for social justice, as it simply pulls the blanket further over my eyes. Morals should never come at the expense of truth.
His comments: (C-) You did not even search for the morals - just complained about one aspect