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Family Schema and design of life outcomes or mere coincidence: A family design case in perspective.

Malcom Gladwell's Outliers talks about opportunities people got due to some demographic dividends.  Why are most hockey players born in the months January, February and March? Is it because they are born with an ability for winter sports because they were born in the winter, or because it's just a coincidence? Well, this is just to warm you up and get to the rationalizing mode of certain successes! Pulp fiction follows.  I live in Bangalore in a crowded area in an apartment complex that house 64 families. I have been here and participated in most social events that society organizes. I know who's who and who belongs to their families, etc. I have seen these people and their kids growing over a decade plus... It's a very peaceful society with no history of any conflicts or chaos...a nice place to be in.. What drew my attention here is what sizes of families live here and whether their grandparents too live with them. There is hardly a few families who have grandparents l...