Nuclear Family

I've always wondered about how nuclear a nuclear family really is. Do the parents undergo pion-pion interaction? Is each parent a mass of quarks (or quirks?) and are they both protons or is one a neutron?

Perhaps more worrisome is the question of how far one of the offspring can go before the nuclear family ionizes. Does the family then become positively charged if the lost one was negative? If a marriage occurs, do two nuclear families bond? And is it more an ionic bond or a covalent bond? If you follow the analogy, ionic bonds occur when one family accommodates the 'overflow' from another; covalent bonds occur when both families become closer as a result of the interaction; metallic bonds occur when nobody really cares where the kids end up.

I think my family is a large molecule. It routinely surprises me with its various configurations and responses to changes in the environment and attacks on its elements.

It is a wonderful thing to see the world of humanity as a chemical environment. I thank God for such a peculiar blessing!