"2 Whether the American family resembles other families in the wide world or not is a matter of the American‟s concept of the family. ... Specifically, Stephanie Coontz, in "The Way We Never Were" (1992), refers to a „family drama‟ as "a staged play that contains any group of two or more persons who engage in ongoing intimacy and obligation, whether they do so because of birth, marriage, adoption or choice....

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