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Fresh Take: Sophie Lucido Johnson, KIN

December 12, 2025·40 min·4 clips
A group of women started meeting at 6:30 AM after a son's death, building a decade-long support system that defies loneliness.
Sophie Lucido Johnson discusses her book 'Kin,' exploring how to build chosen family and combat loneliness through intentional friendships and community. She shares stories of kinship, historical insights on isolation, and practical tips for parents to nurture connections beyond the nuclear family.

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A grounded case for kin as the relationships that help family life work.

Sophie Lucido Johnson treats kin as the ties that hold family life together when blood or marriage does not tell the whole story. The conversation moves through chosen family, aunties, co-parenting, shared caregiving, and the plain fact that some children are raised by more than…

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When your family map needs more than parents and a pickup schedule.

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