How the Nuclear Family Broke Down
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- čas přidán 9. 02. 2020
- “We have an archaic idea of what family is,” says Brooks in a new episode of The Idea File. The nuclear family unit, Brooks argues, is a privilege of the wealthy. Across the world, 38 percent of people still live with extended family. And over the past half-century, the share of people living alone in America has doubled. The nuclear family is no longer the norm-and it should no longer be the ideal.
For more, read Brooks’s article, “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake": www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-nuclear-family-was-a-mistake/605536/
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As a child of a single parent, please don’t let your kids to grow up without a father or a mother.
The modern family is now an over-worked, lonely single mother. No more father, uncles, aunts, etc... It's a tragedy.
Coming from a large extended family. I have benefited from it a lot. I have dozens of cousins that are like extended siblings!
A video about how the nuclear family broke down ironically doesn’t actually explain how it broke down. I wonder what happened in the 1960’s that initiated the break down of many of the societal investments that made the nuclear family even possible 🤔🧐
Every human needs a family, were a social and physical species. Whether you make your own or are born into one our current society doesn't have the social engineering that supports a family structure. Life is still moving forward and with that hope for more than we have today.
I come from a culture where the nuclear or extended family is still strong and I don't think I would have it any other way. I'm Filipino and I have never lived alone in my life except for the 2 years of my separation from my ex-husband in America which were the most miserable years of my life. I'm single now but I still choose not to live alone. I honestly would rather deal with the little annoyances and irritations of living with another person than living alone. I have never gotten used to it nor do I think I ever will. In my culture, it's almost unthinkable (and also actually impossible) to live alone. Because of so many reasons -- financial and social. People don't earn enough to afford houses in which to live alone but also, they wouldn't want to or wouldn't have the opportunity to. Because you will always have parents or siblings or grandparents and cousins who will need to be housed. And I know this is unthinkable to Westerners but to most cultures outside of the west, the opposite -- living alone in isolation -- is what is unthinkable. The downsides are of course the lack of freedom and independence in a way. But the blessings are also so much more -- I'm single but not lonely; I don't have to eat my dinners alone; I will always have emotional support; I will not die alone. It's all that. But like I said, it's cultural. I personally just wouldn't want it any other way for myself.
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I was raised by a single mother and she did her best and I turned out pretty well in terms of career and success so fortunately able not become another statistic. But now I am coming to terms with the deficiencies I have mentally, socially and personally by not having a father in my life while also ONLY having a female influence from the parenting side.
In short, the boomers killed it.
When a person lives alone they pay more and have less.
My nuclear and extended family are very close. The support we give each other is priceless. Love and respect for one another is the key. I know that is lacking in many families.
I find western family system depressing and it is slowly creeping here too..... No grandma grandpa uncle aunt cousins living together....
I grow up without my dad. I became a man based on how I saw the world. I went through darkness before becoming wise. No matter how old a kid gets they will always wonder it was like to grow up with their father and grow angry at both parents
I'm from Mexico and I grew up in a kingship group. My hometown population was around 7000 people and somehow we are all related to each other. 😁 In the street where I grew up many of my neighbors were my cousins, uncles, aunts, great-aunts and uncles, etc... When we used to play hide and seek it took a long time to find everyone because we could go around everyone's house to look for them. I had a great childhood but yeah it's hard to find privacy. And if you want to be more individual, it doesn't look good. Also because family is very important men and women are pressure to marry and start a family very young and if not they will see you as odd and they will tell you that you will end up dressing up saints.
I'm lucky to be someone who is married with children and also a stay at home mother.
One coworker from India explained how proud he was of how common it is for the family to live together across generations... It's interesting to ponder the culture surrounding extended family units... in all honesty... I can NOT imagine living with all my family
"Disadvantages...sometimes you never alone, you can't get a lot of privacy"- dubious virtue, especially for people with different cultural backgrounds and systems of value, i.e. individualistic vs. collectivistic. That's what they teach you to take into consideration, for example, in psychotherapy.
Boomers destroyed the nuclear family.
A link to the article would be nice.