I believe every family has some sort of dysfunction within their family. The difference is that most families are willing to talk about it with others, and the "ideal" family keep their "dysfunctions" more private. You can read the newspaper or watch the news daily and see how many of the tragedies involving families are quoted as saying "They were the ideal family, they lived normal lives from what we could see." And the news report says "Father murders entire family.....". "From what we could see....", that phrase right there shows you that obviously this little "ideal" family probably went on their daily lives as if nothing was amiss, yet the dysfunction was kept under wraps until the tragic event took place.
The Walls family in The Glass Castle, on the other hand, had obvious dysfunctions that everyone was able to see, yet their dysfunctions were a daily living to them. Sometimes the family members made it a point to blurt out their dysfunction with pride. There are different degrees to how dysfunctional a family is, the Walls family to me seemed extremely dysfunctional, yet who are we to judge other family dysfunctions just because it's not what we consider "functional".
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