Sometimes there is one parent raising a child or the child may be freely moving among homes with stepparents and step siblings (see my previous blog about children of divorce). Parents may be different sex or same sex. Our children may be birth children or adopted children, no less dear for the way in which they joined our family. Our family may be related to us or not by biology. Now, in the early twenty-first century, the people who we consider “family” come in all varieties and flavors. In the middle of the twentieth century, family had a specific appearance: two parents of opposite gender and similar skin tones, a child or two reflecting the genetic combination of those two parents, and extended family with similar ethnicities and probably cultural backgrounds. As Thanksgiving approaches, the first of the winter holidays that are supposed to speak to family bonding and family love, it occurs to me that we are living in a very new age of what a family is.
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