Reposted with permission from elizabethseer.com In Hawaiian, ohana is family. It includes your blood relatives and your adoptive or “intentional” family (those you get to choose, like good friends). In the island culture, ohana is very important. Many homes are built with the ohana in mind including “mother-in-law’s quarters” or separate housing structures on the property. The Hawaiians, like most freshly-Westernized tribal cultures, understand community (family, ohana) is important because close societies are built-in support systems. They understand the addage “it takes a village to raise a child”. That quote is …READ MORE
