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Assess the view that the Nuclear Family can have a negative effect on the individuals within the family Many researchers in respected fields (such as psychology, anthropology, and of course sociology) have expressed concern that the (nuclear) family can indeed have a dark side. A major issue for concern and a significant possible cause of negativity in the family has been attributed to the increased isolation or 'private institutionalisation' of the over-idealised nuclear family; it's become very much introvert and separate from the outer world. This in itself is often a cause of individual deterioration as claimed by radical psychologists who believe the nuclear family can result in the upbringing of 'mentally damaged' children. R.D. Laing has introduced the idea of the Family as Gangsters and Ghetto. In the former, the family becomes a miniature internalised under ground community away from the upper world; family members may wage their own personal wars and...

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