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A '''nuclear family''' is a [[family]] comprising father, mother and children, but no other relatives or borders.
A '''nuclear family''' is a [[family]] comprising father, mother and children, but no other relatives or borders.
During the past four decades, historians and demographers have argued that historical Northwest Europe and North America had a unique family system characterized by neolocal marriage and nuclear family structure. Marriages were usually arranged by parents before the 19th century, when [[romantic]] notions allowed the couples to choose their mates.
During the past four decades, [[Family history|historians and historical demographers]] have argued that historical Northwest Europe and North America had a unique family system characterized by neolocal marriage and nuclear family structure. Marriages were usually arranged by parents before the 19th century, when [[romantic]] notions allowed the couples to choose their mates.
==African American families==
==African American families==
Feminist [[Alison Jagger]] calls the nuclear family “a cornerstone of women’s oppression: it enforces women’s dependence on men, it enforces heterosexuality and it imposes the prevailing masculine and feminine character structures on the next generation.”<ref> (”Feminist Politics and Human Nature,” 198 - cited in [http://elliotlakenews.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/feminism-has-communist-roots/ ‘Feminism’ Has Communist Roots]</ref>
Feminist [[Alison Jagger]] calls the nuclear family “a cornerstone of women’s oppression: it enforces women’s dependence on men, it enforces heterosexuality and it imposes the prevailing masculine and feminine character structures on the next generation.”<ref> (”Feminist Politics and Human Nature,” 198 - cited in [http://elliotlakenews.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/feminism-has-communist-roots/ ‘Feminism’ Has Communist Roots]</ref>
==See also==
* [[Family]]
* [[Family History]]
==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* Sussman, Marvin B. "The Isolated Nuclear Family: Fact or Fiction," ''Social Problems'', Vol. 6, No. 4 (Spring, 1959), pp. 333-340 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/799367 in JSTOR]
* Bleser, Carol, ed. ''In Joy and in Sorrow: Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South.'' (1991). 330 pp.
* Bradbury, Bettina, ed. ''Canadian Family History: Selected Readings.'' (1992).
* Campbell, D'Ann. ''Women at War with America: Private Lives in a Public Era,'' (1984), World War II; covers housewives, nurses, Wacs, war-workers
* Degler, Carl. ''At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present'' (1980).
* Demos, John. ''A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony'' (1970) influential pioneering study
* Elder, Jr., Glen H. "History and the Family: The Discovery of Complexity." ''Journal of Marriage and the Family,'' Vol. 43, No. 3 (Aug., 1981), pp. 489-519 [http://www.jstor.org/pss/351752 in JSTOR]
* Gillis, John. ''For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present'' (1985).
* Gordon. Michael, ed. ''The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective'' (2nd ed. 1978), essays by scholars
* Griswold, Robert L. ''Fatherhood in America: A History.'' (1993). 382 pp.
* Hartog, Hendrik. ''Man and Wife in America: A History.'' (2000) 408 pp. , legal history.
* Hawes, Joseph M,. and Elizabeth I Nybakken, eds. ''Family and Society in American History'' (2001), essays by scholars [http://www.amazon.com/Family-Society-American-History-Joseph/dp/0252068734/ref=sid_av_dp excerpt and text search]
* Hareven, Tamara K. "The Home and the Family in Historical Perspective." ''Social Research'' 1991 58(1): 253-285. Issn: 0037-783x in [[EBSCO]]
* Hareven, Tamara K. "The History of the Family and the Complexity of Social Change.'' ''American Historical Review'' 1991 96(1): 95-124. Issn: 0002-8762 [http://www.jstor.org/pss/2164019 in Jstor]
* Hunter, Jean E. and Mason, Paul T., eds. ''The American Family: Historical Perspectives.'' (1991). 211 pp.
* Laslett, Peter and Wall, Richard, eds. ''Household and Family in Past Time.'' (1972).
* Mintz, Steven, and Susan Kellogg. ''Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life'' (1988), 316pp; the standard scholarly history [http://www.amazon.com/Domestic-Revolutions-Social-History-American/dp/002921291X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208814002&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Riley, Glenda. ''Building and Breaking Families in the American West.'' (1996). 204 pp.
* Stone, Lawrence. ''The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800'' (1977).
* Sussman, Marvin B. "The Isolated Nuclear Family: Fact or Fiction," ''Social Problems'', Vol. 6, No. 4 (Spring, 1959), pp. 333-340 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/799367 in JSTOR], good starting point for 1950s
* Watts, Jim and Davis, Allen F. ''Generations: Your Family in Modern American History.'' (1974). 210 pp.