Aberration Quote by Christopher Ryan

“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband-wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally imposed aberration…

— Christopher Ryan

“Nuclear didn't describe families. How could it? Dry physics was not equal to that task. In the twentieth century we needed a biological metaphor,…

— Laura Kalpakian

“A natural family.” Perhaps this easy acceptance between adults and unrelated children, the diffuse nurturing found in societies where children refer to all men…

— Christopher Ryan

“The dependency of the human element on Planet Earth is a profoundly personal relationship with Nature’s Mom.”

— Wes Adamson

The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

— Lillian B. Rubin

“Along with the atom, the personality of the Homo Sapiens has been splitting...”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“There are other unimportant things about us and our world, which are doubtless the actions of civilised species everywhere. We mate for life -…

— Terence Park

“That may have been when they took their vows: We are no longer siblings, we are mates, starship survivors, a two-man crew wandering the…

— Michael Cunningham

“Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become, with as much panache as we…

— Geoffrey Miller

“What could be more intimate, more placental? This steamy, candlelit cradle she'd made use, twins tied in the womb. Grooming each other, letting the…

— Nick Fowler

“Relations which are not sanctioned by the law establish bonds of kinship as manifold, as complex, and even more solid, than those which spring…

— Marcel Proust

It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that…

— Elizabeth Gilbert