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" Why in God's name did people form families? What made them imprison themselves in the separate pressure cookers referred to as 'nuclear families'? Of course, children didn't form them; children came to consciousness and found themselves already bubbling away in the pot. But then what made these children grow up and start another pressure cooker all their own? . .. First the smug exclusion of all others, of the 'outside world'; then the grim multiplication of oneself and one's partner behind closed doors; then the nauseating, unclean moiling about of all the family members in their 'nuclear' cauldron, bumping against one another, everyone knowing all too well everyone else's worst faults—all of them stewing themselves in one another's juices. "