<< We all know Rush (and members of the Far Reich) think that's "the way things ought to be" (a Rush line). But I've heard it argued that the nuclear family - Maw, Paw, kids and no one else, thank you - is actually a new concept, that families of old were extended families and that - sorry, Rush - villages raised the children, not just the biological mother. <<< Villages may have raised children, not bureaucratic woolly mammoth sized governments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------- Gawen Harrison [log in to unmask] A mind is a terrible thing to save. The United Madman's College Fund.