The History And Sociology Of Family

"Affluent conservatives often pat themselves on the back for having stable nuclear families. They preach that everybody else should build stable families too. But then they ignore one of the main reasons their own families are stable: They can afford to purchase the support that extended family used to provide—and that the people they preach at, further down the income scale, cannot."

An enlightening history of "family" life in the remote and recent past. David Brooks has some practical suggestions for improving our situation.

The Nuclear Family Was A Mistake