Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.
The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness.
I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.
The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as a talking point to quash marriage-equality efforts.
We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.
I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.
Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.
While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.
Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
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