The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.

Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.

Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.

Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

In view of the frequent occurrence of modern domestic groups that do not consist of, or contain, an exclusive pair-bonded father and mother, I cannot see why anyone should insist that our ancestors were reared in monogamous nuclear families and that pair-bonding is more natural than other arrangements.