Looking at the headlines last week you might have thought the nuclear family had had its day. The Family and Parenting Institute published a report claiming that because of rising divorce rates and cohabitation, the traditional family is no longer the “norm” in Britain.
What we are seeing, apparently, is the emergence of a new kind of extended family, one in which parents, step-parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents will play an ever bigger role in the care of children in so-called “communal parenting”.
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Change the Family to Destroy the Family
I may have already posted this, but it's definitely worth reposting. From the Times Online:
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