The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
Source: A World of Ideas/ 1989
-- Mary Catherine Bateson, (Dec 8 1939-____), US anthropologist, teacher, writer; She has written/coauthored eight books, including Composing a Life and With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson [her parents].