Maybe this is where we are going wrong with

[TexLaProgressive]

2. Hillary said it, :It takes a village"

Was taking about the changes in families in the USA. My own experience of being surrounded as a child by all sorts of telative besides parent and siblings - cousins, aunts, great aunts, one great great aunt, uncles, great uncles grandparents and more.

I took umbridge with the term, nuclear family - man, woman and 2.1 children. Where was the rest of the family?

I think a lot of it is the mobility of our society that began with the demobilization of military people in the 2 big wars. Men who had never been away from their place of birth settled down in places like the east and west coasts, married, bought a GI tract house and had chilldren far from the rest of family.

I have to admit that moost of my family, especially the south Lousianan brach were warm and expressive in love and affection for each other.. I’m not ssaying perfect because that doesn’t exist, but we loved each other regardless of our iimperfections.

I know nastalgia tends to paint the past as wonderful. But I have grandchildren that are all over the USA. That is common in today’s USA.