Chosen Family: Rewriting the Rules of Love, Care, and Kinship

The word family pops up everywhere, from campaign slogans to dating profiles.But what does it really mean?Most of the time, it's used in the context of a very particular kind of family: one man, married to one woman, living in a home with their shared biological children.That leaves out a whole lot of households, especially since, as of 2019, unmarried couples were announced to be the fastest growing family type in the UK, while 2021 was the first year on record in which more babies were born to unmarried, cohabiting couples than to married couples. It is high time we stopped automatically assuming that, as Tolstoy put it, 'all happy families are alike', and started looking towards ways of co-creating a healthy, inclusive society that supports both traditional and non-nuclear visions of a bonded life. Enter Diana Adams, who has committed their work not only to advocating for collective equality, but also offering practical advice and tools from her mediation practice on asking better q