Have friends become the new family? Familial settings extend beyond old definition of blood ties

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December 30, 2005

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floridatoday.com

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- http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051230/LIFE/512300344/1005

Notes

Also refers to Spencer, L. and Pahl, R. Rethinking friendship: hidden solidarities today (forthcoming) Sept. 2006. Princeton University Press AND Capturing personal communities IN Phillipson C., Allan G. and Morgan D. (eds) Social networks and social exclusion: sociological and policy perspectives. Aldershot: Ashgate: 2004

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