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