@Sherri_Ingrey @Flick The nuclear family is a new concept and doesn't make much sense. It leaves the woman alone, isolated, doing three or four jobs for no paycheck, recognition, or respect. Gosh I wish I could remember who, but triggernometry interviewed someone who said that prior to the industrial revolution, most people "worked from home" - think like farmers, where the entire family contributed and worked together. Then when the industrial revolution happened, women had to choose between going out to work or stay at home, because you can't take your kids to a factory. And what's the choice then? Especially if you're breastfeeding a baby.

And even prior to one family isolating themselves, you had multigenerational families. In tribal times there would be a "mother's village" where the women would raise the children. See the themes? Support, community, working together.

This isolation that the "nuclear family" brought isn't normal or historical.