What do you make of Jesus's statements to leave family?

I've recently been rereading the book of Luke and I find that Jesus frequently demands that people abandon their families. This seems like a categorically immoral instruction to me. There are a few passages, but one that stands out to me:

Luke 14:26 Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.

What do you make of these statements?