Rise Of Nuclear Families In The 1970's And 1970

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According to the author, a nuclear family is a family that consists of a father, mother, and their children. Many others would also deem this as a “traditional” family. This has been considered a function necessity in a modern industrial society, because society needed productive workers and people to take care of children. To give you an image of what this would look like, it was the husbands/fathers who would go to work for the day, the wife/mother would handle the tasks at home, and the children would be playing in the backyard. This has been the “tradition” in our society for a long time. Over the years, how we would define a nuclear family has changed.
It is thought that the rise of nuclear families in the 1960’s and 1970’s was due to

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