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Wasn't "nuclear family" something marketers invented in post-war USA to sell more houses?
by inigyou 4mo ago
Wasn't "nuclear family" something marketers invented in post-war USA to sell more houses?
- carschno 4mo agoNuclear family is indeed a recent development and started with industrialization and modern capitalism. While we use the same term, 'family', to refer to (pre-)historic forms of family, too, those family types had little or nothing in common with the modern definition, when it comes to power, inheritance, law, sex, love. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Family%2C_Private_Property_and_the_State#Development_of_human_society_and_the_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Family%2C_Pr...
- sudobash1 4mo agoThe term I am familiar with prior to that was "immediate family" (as opposed to "extended family"). You come across the term a lot in old genealogy books. For instance in "The History and Genealogy of the Prentice, Or Prentiss Family" (from 1883) contains: > All his immediate family, himself, wives, and children, are dead. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_History_and_Genealogy_of_the_Prentic/0EJfQJUmarMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22immediate+family%22&pg=PA83&printsec=frontcover https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_History_and_Genealo...