A mission statement is a summary of the values of a company and what it aims to be in its practice. In the same fashion, a family can have a mission statement based on the values

We have found that talking about starting a family is one of the stressors clients address in therapy. We know that in our particular cases those conversations with our partners were not what we expected them to be, they were a cold bucket of reality, they were hard, we didn’t know where to start or how to guide our thoughts in the midst of the emotional step that was starting a family.