Does this sound like a healthy family to grow up in?

[Anonymous]

Parents both come from families that used to be super rich but no longer are and are completely detached from reality. They both are ultra catholic and a lot of their relationship with their kids is based on praying together etc. If something is wrong, you have to pray. Out of 6 children, two became priests and two nuns, leaving just to kids who are living a non religious life. Parents are obsessed by how great their families used to be and manage to insert that in virtually every sentence they speak, together with God. Definitely patriarchal model, the mother follows the father like a shadow. He is an extravagant man to say the least, his favorite hobby is hunting and his favorite thing to hunt are endangered animals and he tells his stories of hunting endangered animals publicly disregarding the fact that it is illegal, to him it’s just fun and he doesn’t realize how wrong it is. Kids were raised into thinking that was ok. They were expected to pray every morning before leaving the house and encouraged throughout their teenage years to wake up at 5 to go to mass before school or sometimes to stay up whole nights to pray. Parents were per se very present for the kids and took their educational role seriously. Family holidays were either extravagant hunting missions or pilgrimages to religious places. Or visits to the places were their great and rich ancestors lived.

[BigWhiteWolf87]

Sounds like a typically overly religious family. Zealots.

My father's family has been involved in Church for 500 years; as priests, bishops, etc.

And to be extremely blunt zealots, of all religions, are the worst of sinners. They lack in understanding of their religion, pick and chooses parts of their religious books that support their warped ideologies, and usually have questionable or not-good morals.

In Christianity zealots typically pay the largest sums to the Church, essentially hoping to atone for their sins through money and buy a way into Heaven.

[BeMuse]

Different strokes for different folks. Both parents were around for their children. Religion and heritage was important to instill in their children’s lives. Those were their parenting decisions. Knowing where you come from and some sort of faith is pretty common in many families. They made enough money to take care of the kids with what they needed and to still take regular vacations. Seems normal enough to me, even if it’s different from how I was raised.

[Adam1978]

Yuk it's a extremely toxic environment, detachment from reality for any reason isn't good. Religion will never save you because it's a make believe.

[RockyHammock]

Sounds like you have unresolved issues with your dad. Other than that super healthy

[Guy13]

Sounds like a great life to me.

[WhitneySnow]

That does not sound super healthy