How to Become the Favorite Aunt or Uncle
by Jaclyn Youhana Garver on Offspring, shared by Jacl from Lifehacker on (#4X7QQ)
I'm lucky: As a kid, I had excellent examples of how to be a fun aunt, and even as a teen, I knew it was a role I wanted to play in adulthood. And because my younger brother has autism-severe enough so that having his own family is not in the cards-that meant I needed to marry someone who had siblings who wanted kids.