Now there are more people to cater to and their schedules too. Sometimes the family eats at the same time, but not together. For example, my mother started dating this guy, Dave, and soon he moved in with her son, Thomas. Dave didn't work so he stayed home all day every day; he never made an effort to stay away from my life or my sister, nor did he ever bother to help out around the house. Because of the way Dave was, we were always away from each other. My mom went to work while Skylar, Thomas, and I went to school. When my mother came home from work it was the same program. She made dinner, Thomas and I sat in the dining room eating our dinner, and my mother served Dave dinner in the living room. Then she would feed Skylar through her G-tube, then sit and eat in the living room too. These are just some of the reasons why families don't eat meals together. There are many other reasons that could be invented, for example the grandparents live at home, the parent or parents take care of them, or the family travels a lot and therefore has never settled down. As you can see, maybe there is just a factor getting in my way with schedules or two or more like my family having a single mother and a sister with special needs which then adds to the