What is family? Surely we are no longer obsessed by the nuclear model? Unworkable in todays fragmented UK social order.

1. Family
Two:23

4. Sarah Dessen
“What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In
good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who
showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just
about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something
wider, bigger. We had many families over time. Our family
of origin, the family we created, and the groups you moved
through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers,
sometimes even strangers. None of them perfect, and we
couldn't expect them to be. You can't make any one person
your world. The trick was to take what each could give you
and build your world from it.”

8. “If the family were a fruit, it would be an
orange, a circle of sections, held together
but separable - each segment distinct.”

11. Margaret mead
One of the oldest human needs is having
someone to wonder where you are when
you don't come home at night.

14. "Home is where you are loved the most
and act the worst."

18. "You must remember, family is often born
of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood.
Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family
members can be your best friends, you
know. And best friends, whether or not
they are related to you, can be your family."