Eh, my guess is that after the industrial revolution people could more afford to live in separate households and cousins, aunts, uncles, etc chose to live in their own domicile leaving the "nuclear" family to its own home.
Anyway, the analysis in other posts totally ignore other countries/cultures that had slavery yet continue to have a "non-nuclear" family culture, particularly in South America. So, as usual, the usual suspects use slavery/racism to explain everything.
In many cultures, the Indo-American for instance, survival depended on being tribal. A family consisting of a father, mother and children could not survive alone. That's what insured that the tribe functioned as a nuclear family to stay alive. Sometimes it didn't work because the enemy might have been bigger and were overwhelmed. But, as a whole the nuclear family continues today but because of what VA mentioned the whole entire nuclear family of before didn't depend on numbers. A family with a father and mother did pretty well, and that still continues in most family groups. A good example is the Hispanic family, there may be a nuclear family but it extends to the other members as well. That's why Americans place a lot of importance to family gatherings during the holidays, during Christmas and Thanksgiving as an example. It's modern tribalism and for those who grew up with a mother and father it is a treasured thing.
In my family, we all maintained a very close relationship with our nieces and nephews but they grew, got married and they became the main focus and their families became part of their own little nuclear family, but at special occasions everyone gets together and everyone maintains ties to the original tribe.
I feel sorry for those who don't have those family ties and because of that they try to put it down as racist or whatever cliche they want to use. They're being brainwashed by the communist ideology that families are not important but only those left out in the cold believe it.
(10-22-2026 04:12 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: This incredibly stupid young girl apparently is unaware that every society and people on the earth from the beginning of time are based around the nuclear family.
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Guess again.
Children in pre-agricultural societies are typically raised by the village. In agricultural societies the notion of “family” tends to be broad. Industrialization is what crystallizes this into distinct notions of “nuclear” and “extended” family.
The term “nuclear family” refers to a family group consisting of two adults and their children. It’s considered the basic unit of the modern family structure. In this article, we delve deep into the concept of the nuclear family from a cultural anthropology perspective, exploring its origin, advantages and disadvantages, and its impact on society.
Origin of Nuclear Family
The concept of the nuclear family was not the dominant family structure in most cultures until the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century. This shift was mainly due to urbanization and the necessity for family units to be more mobile in order to seek employment opportunities.
Pre-Industrial Nuclear Family:
Before the Industrial Revolution, extended families, which included grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins living in the same household, were the norm. There were cases of nuclear families existing within these extended families, but they were not autonomous units as we understand them today.
Post-Industrial Nuclear Family:
With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, urban living and mobility became essential. The small and self-sufficient nuclear family unit thus became more practical and gradually turned into the dominant family structure.
The young woman you mention, however she thinks of this history, is aware that substantial cultural evolution has taken place and economic factors play a role.
She is also aware of a historical development that continues to have repercussions in American society:
Slave holders, whatever pride they took in their own (extended, agricultural) families, actively sought to destroy any corresponding sense of family among the enslaved.
Anyone who has not yet had the (sobering, saddening, strengthening) good fortune to read Frederick Douglass’s account of growing up inside such a system is warmly encouraged to make acquaintance. You will feel many things, but you won’t forget it.
For students and teachers first learning about Douglass, there is no better place to start than his first autobiography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845).
It’s an interesting topic, political squabbling aside. One can see definite downsides to the “it takes a village” mindset subsiding in a lot of cultures. Particularly as more families have both spouses working, whether by choice or necessity.
This one is right up there with another one I saw a few years ago stating that private swimming pools were racist. Their claim was everyone swam in public pools until desegregation and then everyone started putting them in their backyard to avoid mixed swimming.
These leftists are crazy
(This post was last modified: 10-27-2026 07:23 AM by MemTigers1998.)
(10-27-2026 07:22 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote: This one is right up there with another one I saw a few years ago stating that private swimming pools were racist. Their claim was everyone swam in public pools until desegregation and then everyone started putting them in their backyard to avoid mixed swimming.
These leftists are crazy
They tie everything to racism. It's what they've always done and it's what they'll continue to do as long as idiots believe them.
10-27-2026 08:16 AM
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I wonder how many of the board's posters — regardless of race, politics and/or ethnicity — has never had a racist thought, never made a racist comment, never behaved in a racist manner.
According to some of you lads, the percentage might be significant.
(This post was last modified: 10-27-2026 08:40 AM by bill dazzle.)
(10-27-2026 07:22 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote: This one is right up there with another one I saw a few years ago stating that private swimming pools were racist. Their claim was everyone swam in public pools until desegregation and then everyone started putting them in their backyard to avoid mixed swimming.
These leftists are crazy
They tie everything to racism. It's what they've always done and it's what they'll continue to do as long as idiots believe them.
(10-27-2026 07:22 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote: This one is right up there with another one I saw a few years ago stating that private swimming pools were racist. Their claim was everyone swam in public pools until desegregation and then everyone started putting them in their backyard to avoid mixed swimming.
These leftists are crazy
They tie everything to racism. It's what they've always done and it's what they'll continue to do as long as idiots believe them.
(10-27-2026 08:40 AM)bill dazzle Wrote: I wonder how many of the board's posters — regardless of race, politics and/or ethnicity — has never had a racist thought, never made a racist comment, never behaved in a racist manner.
According to some of you lads, the percentage might be significant.
You spend all your time trying to find fault with a bunch of people who don't really give a chit about your opinion in the first place.
(10-27-2026 08:40 AM)bill dazzle Wrote: I wonder how many of the board's posters — regardless of race, politics and/or ethnicity — has never had a racist thought, never made a racist comment, never behaved in a racist manner.
According to some of you lads, the percentage might be significant.
You spend all your time trying to find fault with a bunch of people who don't really give a chit about your opinion in the first place.
I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts that Bill is a bigger racist than any of us right wingers that he doesn't like.
(10-27-2026 08:40 AM)bill dazzle Wrote: I wonder how many of the board's posters — regardless of race, politics and/or ethnicity — has never had a racist thought, never made a racist comment, never behaved in a racist manner.
According to some of you lads, the percentage might be significant.
That is an incredibly lame and stupid post, Bill.
Everyone is a fallen sinner who is filled with mistakes. But that does not make anyone a racist, or disqualify them from this discussion.
What is your major malfunction to even have this accusatory thought much less post it?
(10-27-2026 08:40 AM)bill dazzle Wrote: I wonder how many of the board's posters — regardless of race, politics and/or ethnicity — has never had a racist thought, never made a racist comment, never behaved in a racist manner.
According to some of you lads, the percentage might be significant.
That is an incredibly lame and stupid post, Bill.
Everyone is a fallen sinner who is filled with mistakes. But that does not make anyone a racist, or disqualify them from this discussion.
What is your major malfunction to even have this accusatory thought much less post it?
It seems the Gents on the Right (and likely the Lads on the Left, too) are not understanding my general point about racism (likely because I am doing a bad job of making it clear).
I'll try to post later with some clarity.
(This post was last modified: 10-28-2026 08:16 AM by bill dazzle.)
10-28-2026 08:15 AM
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(10-27-2026 08:40 AM)bill dazzle Wrote: I wonder how many of the board's posters — regardless of race, politics and/or ethnicity — has never had a racist thought, never made a racist comment, never behaved in a racist manner.
According to some of you lads, the percentage might be significant.
You spend all your time trying to find fault with a bunch of people who don't really give a chit about your opinion in the first place.
For not being nice to Bill Faggart*, no haikus for you this week, good sir.
* Jack Lewis Faggart (July 20, 1928 to Aug. 20, 2008) was an American professional wrestler known as Sonny "Roughhouse" Fargo.
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