Agreed, especially as normal as it is now.
I've had conversations with our daughter about friends and their families. Nuclear families are uncommon now. It's just what it is. And seeing enough unhealthy marriages; it's probably a lot better that way than the old adage to "stay together for the kids".
> Non-nuclear families are not "not normal" at all now.
Too much negations. Let me compile this for myself and others:
Nuclear families are not normal at all now.
I lived as both the youngest (older brother and sister from my mother) for the first half of my childhood, and then the oldest (younger brother and stepsister from my father) for the latter half. I never once lived with both older and younger siblings, they were essentially different families.
For example, I'm older than my brothers, yet the oldest of them is not a middle child, because he's not a brother of my other brothers.
When families start spreading like this, a kid can be both a middle-child and a firstborn simultaneously - it becomes relative. And the attention that their position supposedly gives them becomes harder to measure.