Knowra Nuclear family Nuclear family A family group centered on two parents and their children, considered separately from a wider household of relatives. Its composition and social role vary across cultures and historical periods.
Kinship : A system of social relationships based on descent, marriage, adoption, or other recognized ties. The nuclear family is one small arrangement within broader systems of recognized relationships.
Extended household : A household in which relatives beyond a parent-child group live together or share domestic organization. It can place multiple generations or branches of kin under one domestic arrangement.
Industrial Revolution : A period of major economic and technological transformation beginning in Britain in the late eighteenth century and spreading elsewhere. Industrial labor and urbanization changed where families lived and how they organized work.
Family policy : Public laws and programs that shape family life, caregiving, and support for households. Benefits and rules often assume particular patterns of parenthood and household membership.
Victorian family : A family ideal associated with nineteenth-century Britain, emphasizing domestic privacy and differentiated gender roles. It exemplifies a historically specific form often mistaken for a universal nuclear-family norm.
Household : People who occupy a shared dwelling and organize some aspects of daily life together. A household can include relatives beyond the nuclear family, or exclude family members who live elsewhere.
Single-parent family : A family in which one parent lives with and raises one or more children. It differs from the two-parent composition in the concept's conventional definition.
Industrialization : The growth of manufacturing and machine-based production within an economy. Wage labor and migration could separate domestic life from kin-based production.
Childcare : The care and supervision of children by parents, relatives, or paid providers. A two-parent model can obscure the wider networks often involved in raising children.
Postwar American family : The mid-twentieth-century United States ideal of a male breadwinner, female homemaker, and their children. It became a powerful public image of the nuclear family after World War II.
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