on The Family---for possible discussion re Vineland/TRP

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Since every family really creates its own oddball culture, saying that family, in general, is admirable or restrictive or anything makes as much sense as saying that culture, in general, is admirable, restrictive, etc.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>

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>On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals — or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious idea?
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>>  — Rose Macaulay (1881-1958), British novelist
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>"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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>--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877)
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina
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