Re:The Postmodern Family Clan
by resiros on Friday February 01, 2019 @07:39AM
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Funnily the postmodern family clan looks quite similar to the old fashioned non-nuclear family:
The grandfather would have multiple children, which all live in the same household. Each of the marrying sons will bring their wives (and then children) to the main household. The whole family will help each other and the responsibility of children will be shared between everyone.
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Where such families existed, they had ties of blood to bind them. The brother who loses his job will be supported by first-degree relatives, not by people he met on Tinder-for-couples. (And even better for stability if his wife is also related to the clan.)
But it's worth knowing that such families were not common everywhere. Nuclear families have certainly been the rule in England for at least 500 years (we have good data) and likely much longer. France is the same, but Russia is different, IIRC.
The increasing rate of generational change makes this more difficult to organize than in the past. One hundred years ago, a granddaughter was basically living the same lifestyle as her grandmother. Today, the two would have less common ground and more likely to be in different political hemispheres.
Re:The Postmodern Family Clan
by aaaaaaaaaaab on Friday February 01, 2019 @07:46AM
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It says at the end that this "postmodern family clan" is explicitly NOT "An extended or multi-generational family defined by consanguinity".
Well, postmodernism is about reverting the changes that illuminism and capitalism brought to the world and that are not working with society, so I feel it's totally fine to go back to more functioning structures.