In response to Tom H, your family is normal in my eyes. A normal family is a functional one. A good example of this is the show we watched in class, Family Ties. Although the show portrays a few stereotypes that we discussed in class and whatnot, the family is functional. In the day and age we live in today, functional families are becoming less. One explination of this is the increase of broken families in the United States. Factors such as divorce and alcoholism can make a family disfunctional. Despite race, religion, size, or social class, a normal family is a functional family.