The Nuclear Family

The “nuclear” family is an apt title for a “small unmanagable group of people ready to explode with the slightest trigger.” I always thought I would avoid raising a family in this enviroment. My husband and I both spent many years living communally. We studied community, we worked for community and worked on books about community. I always thought I would raise my children in some sort of intentional community. Now that we bought a house with a yard, a car, and a cat to roam the yard, we find ourselves living in a nuclear family. We haven’t yet exploded, but it could happen.