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(L. to r.) Kiera, 14, Chris, Nate, 12, Julia, 11, Kelly and John, 9 say a prayer before dinner at their home in Moorestown, New Jersey. Chris and Kelly Dalmass eat dinner with their four children every day during the week and have a larger, extended family dinner most Sundays. Ann Hermes/Staff
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Julia eyes her serving of chicken. Ann Hermes/Staff
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A father shows his son how to chop onions. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff/File
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Rosa Gallegos (front l.) mixes the filling for gorditas while her son, Omar, gets dishes ready for a Saturday dinner in San Ysidro, Calif. Four generations of the family eat dinner together regularly. US Census data show that Latinos, on the whole, have family dinners more often than any other demographic group. Max Dolberg/Special to The Christian Science Monitor
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Barbara and Bill Walsh say the family dinner is part of the ‘together thing’ they cultivated in their 15 kids, whose favorite dinner was hot dogs with SpaghettiOs. Ann hermes/Staff
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The Family Dinner Project teaches the ritual and benefits of family dinner at a lasagna dinner in Lynn, Mass. Joanna Gallagher, a volunteer, guides dessert preparation. Ann Hermes/Staff
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Zoya Lipnyagova and her children have dinner at their farmhouse in the village of Kluchi, Russia, November 15, 2011. Ilya Naymushin /Reuters
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Carmen Aurora Sastre Castilla (l.) hands her sister Rosa some bread for their sister Antonia (only her hand is visible), as their mother Carmen Castilla, 77, sits while they have dinner next to the family's belongings on the street that has been their home for the past two weeks in Madrid on June 8. Susana Vera/Reuters
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Cheng Jun and his wife Deng Qiyan, both migrant workers from southwest China's Sichuan province, have dinner with their three-year-old son Cheng Yuhui, in their 86 square foot dwelling on the outskirts of Beijing, December 27, 2010. Jason Lee/Reuters
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Spain's Crown Prince Felipe (l.), delivers a speech during a gala dinner in honor of Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, at the Royal Palace in Madrid, March 30, 2011. Alberto Martin/Reuters
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Iraqi student Amal Selman shares dinner with roommates and fellow students in their dorm apartment at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS) in the Kurdish regional city of Suleimaniyeh, northern Iraq, on June 20, 2011. Scott Peterson/Getty Images/The Christian Science Monitor
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Thembile washes dishes while Olga warms up dinner in September of 2009 in Tshepisong, South Africa. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff/File
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Ha Mong Diep (bottom l.), 51, who operates Vietnam's largest 450-ton crane at the Coc 6 open-cast coal mine, has dinner with his family in Cam Pha town, in Vietnam's northeast Quang Ninh province, 124 miles from Hanoi September, 2010. Kham/Reuters
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Snooki and Miley Cyrus, regulars in the celebrity news cycle, probably don't model ideal behavior for teens. Parents can help teens evaluate pop star behavior by discussing how their family values relate to what they see in the media.
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Stephanie Hanes, Correspondent /
June 25, 2012
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