The point of an organic family is to release the children from the disadvantages of being the extensions of their parents so that they can belong pri… - Germaine Greer

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The point of an organic family is to release the children from the
disadvantages of being the extensions of their parents so that they
can belong primarily to themselves. They may accept the services
that adults perform for them naturally without establishing dependencies.
There could be scope for them to initiate their own activities
and define the mode and extent of their own learning. They might
come to resent their own strangeness but in other circumstances
they might resent normality; faced with difficulties of adjustment
children seize upon their parents and their upbringing to serve as
scapegoats. Parents have no option but to enjoy their children if they
want to avoid the cycle of exploitation and recrimination. If they
want to enjoy them they must construct a situation in which such
enjoyment is possible