Caring is a universal phenomenon that involves
a. Being disconnected.
b. Excluding outside phenomena in favor of family relationships.
c. Focusing only on human relationships with one another.
d. What matters to a person.
D
Caring determines what matters to a person. It underlies a wide range of interactions, from parental love to friendship, from caring for one's work to caring for one's pet to caring for and about one's patients. Caring means that people, events, projects, and things matter to a person. It is a word for being connected.
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