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Episode 14 - Small Household Sizes and Family Trees Without Branches
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Episode 14 - Small Household Sizes and Family Trees Without Branches

How the shriveled, tri-generational structure of the modern American family leaves individuals more alone than ever in human history and under-skilled for the complexities of modern social life.

In this episode, I finish reading Part Six on the Decline of Family as a key contributor to our American approach to individualism. Family-centered cultures do not let members wander the country or globe and disconnect from weekly visitations.

Urban America features couples and individuals as the foundation of households, not families. We do not even li…

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