More singles pick friends over family on holidays

The Boston Globe reports:

More and more people have supplanted their biological families with homemade families comprising friends and neighbors whom they hold equally dear to their blood relatives. More than 40 percent of unmarried US residents under the age of 60 said they’re more than happy to spend the holidays away from biological family and with friends, according to a recent study in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships authored by Jamila Bookwala, a psychology professor at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.