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the intro starts with a personal experience and motivation of why doing this topic.
- it moves on to explain that siblings are intriguing - some examples in literary works, films, politics (sibling relationships between some political figures) where siblings are comparing, competing with each other and being rivalries.
- it defines what is a sibling, concept of 'relationality', methodology, and structure of the book

In the year since the Second World War, we have witnessed an increasing separation of marriage and parenthood such that, marriage is fast being replaced by parenthood as the basis for 'family'.

‘parent’, like ‘child’, is a term with a shifting meaning. ‘Parenthood’, like ‘childhood’, refers to a fluid set of social practices and expectations that are historically and culturally situated, and its meaning is contingent upon broader social, political and economic exigencies.