Family is a tool for control and a strange way of reaching immortality via legacy. Screw that.

It's control because you can make family accountable for the action of one of its member. So the family itself will make sure every member behave.

it's also the way people expect to make their "empire" survive them. They want you to success at what they did, they want you to raise children because they want their family to survive. It's not necessarily bad, but it is when the will of the child isn't respected.

And the worst part is family is always a figure of authority. So the weight of its will is always heavy.