Farewell — and good riddance — to the 'typical American family'

[Gefn]

For most of the 20th century, the word "family" in America evoked a predictable picture of cookie-cutter cleanliness: the happily married husband and wife, their 2.5 kids, and one improbably well-behaved golden retriever, all under the same roof. But the nuclear family has steadily eroded over the last 50 years.


The first major death knell came with the 1973 oil crisis and the two-year recession that followed, which signaled the end of the West's postwar prosperity boom. Since then, the nuclear family has crumbled piece by piece. In 1970, more than two-thirds of American adults between 25 and 49 lived with a spouse and at least one kid. By 2021, only 37% of adults fit the bill, Pew Research found.

Although it may be premature to declare the nuclear family officially over, the model is beginning to look more like a fringe lifestyle choice than the bedrock of American society.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ar-BB1kGebL

[roamer_1]

Couldn't get through it. I have no time for fools.

And they are *FOOLS*.

All one need do is look through history - Anywhere you want - And you will see that all of civilization centers around the family.

The broken part is that it's not big enough.

Prior to modern times, extended family was all around you - Grandparents from both sides, aunts and uncles from both sides, cousins galore.

That is strength, under a single patriarch and matriarch, extended into kin... Massive capabilities at a local level.

Put it back.

[the OlLine Rebel]

What bastards!  Literally!

Good riddance?  Please note the correlation between stability of family and stability of society.

But here, communists decry the family unit, and of course drag out libelous epithets like “racist” and “sexist” and homophobia.  Undoubtedly these are the very same people who relish the hippie originated “free love” which leads to rampant sex, rampant bastardy, and thus of course no actual family.

It has done us so well to screw around with impunity.