CHAPTER 35AGREEMENT WITH EXTENDED FAMILIES
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, forthe time being, separate from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
—Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden
I grew up in a large ethnic family. My father was part of the “family business” that was started by my grandfather. Each of my parents came from four-sibling families. Although my aunts and uncles were not prodigious, I was part of a group of eleven first cousins who were all living within a ten-mile radius. Until the end of grammar school, I spent entire summers living in the same house as six of my cousins. I understand by direct experience what it’s like to live in an environment that does not honor ...
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