An extended family can absorb family dissolution in this or that nuclear family sub unit. It cannot absorb large scale disillusion of the nuclear family within that extended family. One of the worst stories i heard was a soldier who landed on mid tour leave. And he's met at the gate, or not at the gate,. it the baggage claim by his wife, his child and his wife's new boy friend. O my gosh, yes. Then what does he do? He comes from a fractured family hisself. He doesn't so again, what we're talking about is we we're not just dealing with dissolution of nuclear family in a lot of american communities. We're dealing with the knock