This week on Talkfest with Michael Williams, we ruminate on how our idea of what makes a family is evolving and growing, and why we constantly hear that the family is under siege.

You'll hear a panel on the modern family, hosted by Madeleine Morris, with public affairs specialist and wife of the Opposition Leader Chloe Shorten, journalist and the author of Only, a literary memoir about being an only child, Caroline Baum, and lawyer, primary teacher and queer activist Alyena Mohummadally.

Michael's co-host is Monica Dux, columnist with The Age, social commentator, speaker, and author of Things I Didn’t Expect (when I was expecting) and editor of the anthology Mothermorphosis.