Urban Tribes: Are Friends the New Family?
 

Urban Tribes: Are Friends the New Family?

by Ethan Watters

In his early thirties, Ethan Watters began to realize that none of his friends were following the paths of their parents. Instead of settling down in couples and starting families, they lived and vacationed in groups, worked together at businesses they'd started, and met every week for dinner. As he started to document this phenomenon, he encountered countless other "tribes," in cities all... (read more)

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