[Burkeman1]

It is hardly "Homo propaganda." Roman families often contained non biological members through the very common insitution of adoption due to high mortality rates. Even adults were adopted into other families. The Patron- client system of Roman life also fed this notion of a greater family- the number of "clients" a family had was a measure of it's power and prestiege. Many such "clients" were adopted. And this bond was just as real as blood relations to the Romans. Often- heirs of a family fortune were not blood related but an adoptee.

Gauis Octavius- better known as Emporer Augustus was the adopted son and heir of Julius Ceaser.

As for the CE and BCE PC idiocy- they tried to pull that off for a while but I don't see it used much anymore.

[Unam Sanctam]

But indirectly it is propaganda, since the Left has a major campaign to "redefine" the family to include all kinds of variable forms of living arrangements.

[Yeti]

You talk about the lifestyle of 0.1% of a civilization that was decadent on the verge of collapse as if it were the norm of the day, or any other day. And this article talks as if we could draw some generalizations from that.

Pah! ~

[Little Bill]

In Rome when a slave was freed he joined the Family of his Master, thus the ianus in the last name of later Romans, meaning loosey of the family of.