The Family: From Multigenerational to Nuclear

Family forms change over time, often in response to changing economic

conditions but also in response to changing cultural ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k5Ep-MD2jiQ

The Colonial Family

The Modern Family

Age Consciousness

• The rise of birthday parties• School became graded by age• Families divided into generations• Age qualifications

Stats and Graphs

Marriage:From Economics to Love

PRIMARY SOURCES: COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE

WWII and Suburbanization

• During the Cold War, new housing developments with small block houses and an ideological emphasis on home ownership encouraged couples to live in two-generation nuclear-family households.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OApZePeJSdU

Changing Family Structure

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwikvo6EZiQ

PRIMARY SOURCES: MILLENNIALS, MARRIAGE, AND SHACKING UP

Questions to Ponder

• How do their parents’ reasons for marrying affect children?

• How to changing family forms affect children?• What role should we to assign the wellbeing

of children in government policing of family forms? (i.e. divorce, gay marriage, etc.)