Fascinating to see that the big change in family income over the last 200 years wasn't the shift from male breadwinners to dual-income or female breadwinners It was the dramatic decline of the "clan-based" economic unit, such as family farms or family-owned stores https://t.co/QfvlGItO6Q
(The nuclear family structured around a male breadwinner was in fact of recent invention, arising in the 1920s and peaking in the 1950s and 1960s; before then, multigenerational families relying on multiple contributors to the family economy had been the norm.)
" 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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