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David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
How the Nuclear Family Broke Down
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" If you want to summarize the changes in family structure over the past century, the truest thing to say is this: We’ve made life freer for individuals and more unstable for families. We’ve made life better for adults but worse for children. We’ve moved from big, interconnected, and extended families, which helped protect the most vulnerable peopl
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The privatized patriarchal nuclear family is still a fairly recent form of social organization in the world. Most world citizens do not have, and will never have, the material resources to live in small units segregated from larger family communities. In the United States studies show that economic factors (the high cost of housing, unemployment) a
... See morebell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
If you want to summarize the changes in family structure over the past century, the truest thing to say is this: We’ve made life freer for individuals and more unstable for families.
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The nuclear family is a recent invention and a death blow to love—an unprecedented demand on a couple to be everything to each other, the family a tiny echo chamber: history one layer deep. None of the great virtues—even this—is meant to be carried in isolation.
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
But there were grounds enough for middle-class anxiety, some of which struck at core features of traditional family life. Maintaining firm domestic control over children, and investing in their educational advancement—key elements in the middle-class life strategy—was feasible for most couples only with small families. Not only were they forgoing e
... See moreCharles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Jilber Najem added
Rather than an important rite of passage, maybe living alone is just one experience of many that can shape a person. By emphasizing it—not just individuals living on their own, but individual, nuclear families, too—I wonder what kind of society we’re aiming to create.
Haley Nahman • #96: Why Do We Aspire to Live Alone?
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