IDEALLY, families are groups of people of more than one generation who have a passion for living together. No child growing up in a family, of course, has anything to compare it with for some time; nor is the child in a position to leave. To begin with, whatever the actual arrangements, the family from the child’s point of view is just the way the world is.
The child in the family is, in this sense, like Sartre’s rebel: the person who keeps the world the same so he can go on rebelling against it. He is not the revolutionary…
