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Since the Industrial revelation the nuclear family has been recognised as the norm of British society, but did it exist before within the extended family
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Since the Industrial revelation the nuclear family has been recognised as the norm of British society, but did it exist before within the extended family? The pre- industrial family was said to be an extended family consisting of three generations, the children, parents and the grandparents. The family would all work together in the farms to help provide for the entire families needs, children as young a 5 or 6 would have been found work to do. However this was until the Industrial revolution when factories become the main source of work and development. The pre-industrial societies were largely based on extended kinship networks; land and other resources were commonly owned by a range of relatives that extended well beyond the unit of the nuclear family. It was very common for families to work alongside their cousins and even live with them. This extended family was responsible for the production...
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