Culture
The Death Of The Nuclear Family Is Problematic
It makes sense that a culture obsessed with so-called progress would be focused on dissolving all the accessories of a traditional society, and nothing is more traditional (and thus in more need of dissolving) than the nuclear family.
By Gwen Farrell3 min read
A recent op-ed from The New York Times argues that we’re more of an advanced society than ever before as the nuclear family structure continues to crumble. But these kinds of declarations, which fundamentally insist that the well-being of our modern civilization directly correlates to the decrease, and in fact the destruction, of the nuclear family is a gross and careless assertion. The death of the nuclear family is problematic – here’s why.