Nuclear family

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Nuclear family describes a family that consists of only 2 generations: parents with children . It differs from the (traditional) extended family , which includes members of several generations and also side lines . In contrast to the so-called nuclear family (one mother, one father, all biological children), small families also include adoptive or stepchildren or can be rainbow families (with same-sex partners). Couples without children (in the household) do not form a nuclear family ; in most cases, single parents with their children are not included either (referred to as incomplete families ).

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European history

The nuclear family emerged as the predominant form of family with the industrial revolution in Europe . It emerged with the dissolution of traditional family and utility communities tied to land ownership or leasehold , especially in urban and industrial areas. Farm workers abandoned traditional family systems to find work in the growing manufactories and factories . The low wages and the small apartments that arose around such industrial settlements were barely enough to live on - even for a small family. To ensure survival, women and children often also worked as wage workers in the factories. The living and living conditions in the working-class neighborhoods remained tailored to the small family , which was very cramped with several children.

literature

• Thomas Bargatzky : The nuclear family - a universal family form? In: Same: Ethnology. An introduction to the science of the primordial societies. Buske, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-87548-039-2 , pp. 101-105: Chapter 6.3.
• Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve : The Failure of the Nuclear Family. Capitalism, love and the state. 2nd, revised edition. Barbara Budrich, Leverkusen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8474-2196-2 (review on Literaturkritik.de 2019).

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Duden online : Small family. Retrieved May 4, 2019.