My thanks to the supporter who pointed me to this story earlier today. Four ‘families’ were on the shortlist to be the subjects of a new £100,000 sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing to represent ‘The Face of Birmingham’:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23577174

Three of the families appear traditional, but the judges unanimously chose a ‘family’ consists of two sisters who are single mothers, with their young sons:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23854738

Fathers have no place in the modern family… even in public art.