> Western societies basically don’t have extended families as an important social unit at all Like with low birth rates, this appears to stem more from modern

> Western societies basically don’t have extended families as an important social unit at all Like with low birth rates, this appears to stem more from modernity than anything else. Both Western and non-Western societies placed more of an emphasis on extended families in the past, and both have placed less of an emphasis on them as they've modernized. Western societies have been at the forefront of a lot of modern changes, so these changes were more noticeable in them.