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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, [[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.  

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. In other societies--such as Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa--powerful clans, senior patriarchs, and duties to and extended kinship networks were dominant factors in shaping families.

 

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==