American family

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BUMPED2002
03/30/2024
11:20 AM
#1
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.

I think 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.

More and more kids are returning to live at their parents home as well as times continue to get tough for some.

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03/30/2024
09:01 AM
#2
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Metalsonic66
03/30/2024
11:47 AM
#3
I never watched that sitcom, was it actually good?
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EclairReturns
03/30/2024
12:00 PM
#4
Metalsonic66 posted...
was it actually good?


Only to those who are enamored with their nostalgia, like TC, I suppose.
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Muscles
03/30/2024
03:19 PM
#5
I don't think the idea faded, it's just harder to obtain.

Ultimately we should try to get there again, nuclear families are the way to go to have a well off society.
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C0RNISHACID
03/30/2024
03:22 PM
#6
Muscles posted...
Ultimately we should try to get there again, nuclear families are the way to go to have a well off society.

Why's that?
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Lokarin
03/30/2024
04:41 PM
#7
actually, the image of the American family only lasted between 1940 and 1970, people only think it was a century long thing but people were still living in familial colonies and homesteads right up until the second world war
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adjl
03/30/2024
06:10 PM
#8
Lokarin posted...
actually, the image of the American family only lasted between 1940 and 1970, people only think it was a century long thing but people were still living in familial colonies and homesteads right up until the second world war

And much of the "American dream" of families living in their own suburban houses with white picket fences and manicured lawns was overwhelmingly a post-war thing, as car industry propaganda pushed that as being the ideal way to design cities. It is, of course, terribly silly to think of reliance on massive government subsidies to prop up unsustainable infrastructure as being symbolic of personal wealth and prosperity, but that's precisely what many people worldwide bought into, with devastating results. Some cities and countries saw where suburban sprawl was taking them and managed to turn things around, others have been more stubborn about it.
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fishy071
03/31/2024
12:47 AM
#9
I think it has faded away years ago.
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Dikitain
03/31/2024
06:20 AM
#10
I kind of miss the homestead life to be honest. It is depressing going back to my hometown and what used to be miles and miles of forest and farm land being turned into McMansion hell.
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Lokarin
03/31/2024
08:50 AM
#11
ya, just one or two families living on a thousand acres or so with peach trees as far as you can see
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teddy241
03/31/2024
10:51 AM
#12
Bro its long gone. Everyone looks after theyselves now. The family, the community, the church all that died
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