It's Tuesday, April 12, 2022. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and Events from a Christian worldview.

Is the Nuclear Family no longer the norm?

The New York Times recently ran an article actually celebrating the declaration that the

nuclear family is no longer the norm in the United States of America.

Jessica Groves as the article's author.

She writes, quote, over 20 years ago, the sociologist Vern Bingston gave a lecture in which he predicted that multi-generational

bonds would be ascendant in the 21st century. Bingston, we are told, who spent

decades studying generations of 300 California families, continuing the quote, pushed back against

the idea that the decline of the nuclear family model was bad for society.

Now as we look at this, we just need to take a deep breath and understand that

there is something important going on in this article but it is not about the

demise of the so-called nuclear family it's about the intentional redefinition of the so-called nuclear family. It's about the intentional redefinition of the family,

the destabilization of any constant normative understanding of the family. There's a big story

behind this but there's also some research indicated, demonstrated

right here in this article, we need to give some attention to it.

Groes writes, even two decades ago, Americans were increasingly moving away from the mom-dad and two kids family

structure that corresponded with the norms and pop culture of the 1950s.

Now the research that's coming in that is cited in this article the research that supposedly demonstrates

that the nuclear family is no longer the norm is evidence of the fact that you

have young adults continuing to live with parents especially young men by the way more on that in just a moment

you also have an increasing number of multi-generational households

you have other developments including the fact there's so many single parents and you're

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