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
Throughout most of human history, people grew up enmeshed in dense family networks that knitted together distant cousins and in-laws. In these regulated-relational worlds, people’s survival, identity, security, marriages, and success depended on the health and prosperity of kin-based networks, which often formed discrete institutions known as clans
... See morefamily structure, marriages and child–parent relationships would be transformed.
Agriculture has been rationalized — made transparent, predictable, largely automated, requiring increasingly less human attention, and shrinking in its contribution to GDP.
That’s especially true because of the narrowing gender gap in pay we saw earlier; Millennial families lose more income than previous generations did when women leave the workforce to care for children.