From November sidebar.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
~ Margaret Mead

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
~Ogden Nash

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
~George Bernard Shaw