"We didn't think this would happen in our family," she said.

Certainly she could not go home to have it; nothing like this had ever happened in her family.

A lot of arm wrestling happened in our family growing up!

But that was how things happened in his family.

How things used to happen in his family, Tim corrected himself.

I'm a bit surprised to see what is happening in my own family.

"I bet you never imagined that would happen in your perfect little family."

Shame that such a thing could happen in one's own family.

Nothing of that kind ever happened in her family, she kept saying.

"What do you think's happening right now in your family?"