Family systems have boundaries; those boundaries can be physical like houses, plots of land, and geographic territory, or they can be social constructs like affinal and consanguineal relationships. If...

Family systems have boundaries; those boundaries can be physical like houses, plots of land, and geographic territory, or they can be social constructs like affinal and consanguineal relationships. If understanding a system is possible only by understanding the whole, where do you draw the boundaries on what makes up the whole?