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Friedrich Engels on Women's class status in the nuclear family (europe.pub)
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[โ€“] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The coin was termed in 1950s. Nuclear family goes back to 13th century England.

[โ€“] marl_karx@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

hmm okay, i always thought that was just the traditional christian family and that the nuclear family was that + the added layer of capitalism and even more rigid gender roles (more sexism etc)