In the 2020 bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea, author T.J. Klune writes: “A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.” That’s something that most adults know: But not everyone’s family is the same as ours. As adults, it’s easy to take that fact for granted. Yet, when it comes to understanding why some families have two dads, others don’t have parents but have a Grandparent or an Uncle taking on the parental role; or any other form of “family” can be hard to understand when you’re a kid.