After an apocalyptic event, surviving with family members can make life a whole lot easier or make it even worse than the disaster itself. While you will get all of the advantages of living communally with a group of people, with your blood ties and have long histories together it can cause difficulties as old arguments and debates can raise their heads again. The other difficulty is whether you draw the line at immediate family or you include your cousins and grandparents in the survival equation.
The advantages of planning on surviving with your family members are very similar to the advantages that come from planning your survival with any community of people. These include:
Disadvantages
For some families, the decision to work together in the face of a TEOTWAWKI event may seem like an invitation to spend a year in hell. The main disadvantages of surviving with your family members include:
Who to Include
This last concern about surviving with family raises the issue of who you include in your survival plans. Obviously, you will need to make preparations for your spouse and any children, but beyond that you may find yourself limited by space and cost.
The idea of having your extended family staying with you may sound great in theory, but you need to remember that you’ll be living in each other’s pockets constantly. However, you may find that there are some people that you have to include such as your parents or grandparents if they already rely on your care, as well as any single siblings who wouldn’t otherwise have access to a communal survival group.
Warning: Who to Exclude
Almost every family has a black sheep, the brother, sister, son, daughter or cousin, etc., who has crossed over the line of legal and socially-acceptable behavior. Whether as a result of drugs, violence or fraud, they have proven to be untrustworthy and perhaps even a danger to not only to strangers from to other family members.
Someone who has substance abuse problems or is violent will be a definite disadvantage in any survival situation. You had better make up your mind now to not take in that person...in fact, you shouldn't even let that individual know you are prepping and planning on surviving with family.
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