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How the Nuclear Family Broke Down
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February 10, 2020
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5:17Now Playing“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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