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The excessive focus on the nuclear family is itself a very recent trend that would otherwise be viewed as very odd by many if not most historical social organiz
by XorNot 8mo ago
The excessive focus on the nuclear family is itself a very recent trend that would otherwise be viewed as very odd by many if not most historical social organizing systems.
Given the diversity of social models which have emerged globally, I have no idea how you could possibly make that claim.
- anal_reactor 8mo agoI have no idea how to argue with you because it feels like we can't agree whether the Earth is obviously round or obviously flat.
- saghm 8mo agoFrom a cursory google search, there does not seem to be anything close to a consensus that the nuclear family is the dominant way that humans have organized historically: https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/the-persistent-myth-of-the-nuclear-family/ https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/the-persistent-my...