You will never find a typical family or even a typical group of families in America or anywhere else. Every family is different. You will find that any family you can think of could be both historical as well as “ahistorical,” because every family, no matter its composition, has a unique synergy. It doesn’t matter if both parents work, if there is only one parent, or even if the family is simply a group of very close friends. Every family works differently from every other family, and there is no guarantee that what works for one will work for any of the others.

I have known many families from many different cultures, and even though they showed great differences from each other even when only considering those from their own culture, they all seemed to work in one way or another. The family is neither degrading or diversifying. It is simply that we are allowing ourselves to see the differences between what is set before us and what we have grown comfortable with in our own minds.