Building a Familysmall) contributions to explaining whether you become
partnered.
Conclusions
As we have seen, human relationships at the most intimate
level make a huge difference to a person’s happiness. How-
ever, family history, in so far as we can measure it, contrib-
utes little toward explaining who becomes and remains part-
nered. This suggests that later interventions to help people’s
social skills may have as much a role to play as childhood
interventions. One obvious issue here is mental health.