How the Nuclear Family Broke Down 

“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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