Pretty Birds in Pretty Cages: Could the Nuclear Family Be the Reason We’re All Miserable?

I’ll never forget the day I first fell apart. It was just after I left my job as a software engineer to stay home and raise my children. Those first months are a blur, but one day still lives in my mind as if it happened yesterday.

I’d taken the boys out for a walk in a double stroller. The toddler was strangely…