Having been raised in a family for whom eating dinner (and often breakfast) together was just a given; what everyone in the neighborhood did at some point between 5 and 7:00 p.m., I find it incredulous that we have to have organizations plan certain days for the family to sit down to dinner together. I am a 49 year old African-American woman from Toledo, Ohio who raised my now 25 year old daughter as a single mom after divorcing her father when she was a toddler. With the exception of when she was away at college and graduate school, we've always enjoyed meals together. We still live together, and still enjoy meals together, often having the Sunday meal with my parents. The thing that's missing from the discussion of families not being able to have dinner together is that one overlooked word: choice. People complain about overcrowded schedules, but these are choices that people make; who says that your kids have to be involved in so many activities?! My daughter was exposed to many things growing up: dance, sports, horseback riding, music, etc., but not all at the same time. I too limit my commitments in favor of family time, even now that my daughter is an adult because we still enjoy time together and time with family and friends, especially around the dinner table. It's really not the problem that people make it out to be, it's a matter of what your priorities are.