family that eats together stays together...

I think so, we try to at least eat once a day together

WE don't always eat together, but we eat together often, and we're pretty close. I'd say there's some truth in the saying.

I believe that families that eat together do stay together. they seem to be more in tune with each other when they are closer. When you are so much a part of each other's lives, you can share more together.

Yep, i believe in this saying. When i was young me and my family always had lunch and dinner together and it never felt more closer than that. I love eating with family.

Eating together is a very good habits among family members. Try for one month the attachment become you and your family members is so close.

Well, i have no dubt that the lunch hour for the family is a moment of concentration. Unfortunately this not happens in my family cause that relationships with family is no good (hope only for now!!). May discuss various issues. Maybe help each other in personal problems. However, if you ask me,I agree on this debate. Alessandro Genova 31 ottobre 2010

The joint family structure,in many places,is gradually breaking into smaller nuclear units of smaller size.In small sized families,the family bond is relatively stronger and more intense.Eating together in a family certainly brings the members closer to each other and helps improve greater unity and harmony in the family set-up.However,in modern work life with hectic and busy schedules,it becomes difficult to eat together,on regular basis,though the family bond and relation are still maintained. Thanks.

yes i do believe that bonding at mealtimes is very important. it has now become a luxury since many parents are often too busy with work and can no longer find the time to come home for meals. both parents and children are missing out on the opportunity to get to know what's happening in their individual lives. it's really sad that such a simple family ritual is dying out and the consequences are costly . . .

yeah, i fully agree with you,i work in a city far from my parents.i stay at home only a few days in a year.Mother cooks a great many of meals when i being at home everytime.seated at table with my father,mother and older brother,which is my happiest time in my life.

Three years ago i'm living with my parents, so i always eat with my family. It's really happy. Now i'm a student and live far away from my family (About 100 miles), that is a reason that i can not make a meal with my family imediately. It makes me sometimes fell sadly. I can only eat with my family only at the end weeken of a month. So sad.

How true stanley, Once a family starts to fall apart, it is the eating schedule that suffers. Once, it was 3 times a day, then, two times a day, later it became dinner. Once a week, one a month, and once a year. It goes on and on until it shall come to pass that the entire family could no longer be together in a meal. That's just the way it goes, no matter how we try.

I strongly believe in this. Meals should be a daily ritual, with the family, not something you grab in the subway on the way home. I strongly believe that food is extremely important to make us happy, but not just food for the sake of eating. Cooking at home is important, eating together makes the cook feel special and appreciated. I've just read today that teenage girls who eat meals cooked at home are 90% less likely to develop bulimia than those who eat fast food. I think eating together might help prevent more such illnesses, possibly even depression.

Yeah I do believe in this saying, for I eat together with my family and until now we keep our bonding through all the years. Because like you just said Stanley, We spend more time chit chatting while eating right?, we have long periods sitting on the dinning table even though we have finished our meal. The feeling being with our family is the feeling that we are happy and we feel that we are relaxed being with them.^_^ Have a happy family unity

I even don't start to eat if one of them hasn't arrived yet. We always eat together on a daily basis or any special occasion.

I have not heard this saying before. But since a young age, we have always had food together most of the days. Even now in the evenings we have our dinners together. In the mornings and afternoon we can't have it together due to different timings of work. But on weekends and during dinners we have it together. Cheers! Ram