the I-Thou and building trust, or moving away from the I-Thou and destroying trust. The former he refers to as a rejunctive family, the latter he refers to as a disjunctive family. He believes that families have a moral obligation to move toward trustworthiness. He further states that trustworthiness is the most important value or characteristic that parents are to display to their children, and that this characteristic is to be passed to each subsequent generation. In response, he holds that children