Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its cente

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. – Jane Howard

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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. – Anne Tyler

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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family. – Nastassja Kinski

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My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together. – Kim Kardashian

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