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No family structure guarantees happiness or ensures misery: real life is wilier and more fraught with accident and luck than that.

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Our narrow, constricting, airless sense of the isolated nuclear family has not always, if we are honest, served us well, and it may now be replaced by something more vivid and dynamic, and closer to the way we are actually living.

Katie Roiphe