Friday, January 30, 2015

Pluralization, Family, We

The most familir example of Pluralization is biological Reproduction, in which 2 becomes 3, or more. But, a family is not in itself a We. For, the former, at least at the outset, is, for some of its members, an involuntary relation, while a We is essentially voluntarily assumed. That some adult children do re-conceive their family as a We only underscores that there are others who repudiate the biological connection, thereby illustrating the difference between Family and We.

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