Tory minister's acknowledgment of what makes a "good family"

A Tory minister has surprisingly acknowledged that a good family is any group of people that make children feel loved and supported.

I did not have a good family — after age 8 or so, I did not feel that either parent's house was my home. The next time that I felt I had a home was when I lived in Currier House at Harvard. After I was expelled for passing too many classes (I was too grief-stricken to attend the graduation ceremony), I felt that the MIT AI lab was my home, for a few years. Perhaps the support I felt there is what enabled me to develop the strength to begin, in the late 70s, to stand up against wrongs I saw around me.