Leading Question: If we keep score of the family relations in the book of Genesis in order to determine which side wins, the dysfunctional family or the supportive family. What is the result?

It would seem that of all the family histories recorded in Genesis, the dysfunctional ones far outnumber the supportive ones. Note this list:

Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Seth

Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth

Abraham, Hagar, Sarah, Ishmael, Isaac

Isaac, Rebekkah, Jacob, Esau

Laban, Rachel, Leah, Jacob

Jacob and his twelve sons, including Joseph

Joseph and Asenath, Ephraim, Manasseh

Of all those families, Joseph would come closest to the ideal – yet his road was a rocky one ...