The Demise of the

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…other, the only difference being that with the nuclear family came the breakdown of relations with the extended family. Thus, children have been left with no-one inside the family to turn to about abuse or neglect for the past fifty years. Personally, I welcome the meltdown of the Nuclear family and the re-establishment of connections with meddlesome, sometimes annoying extended relations for it is only through this process that child-rearing can perhaps be improved upon.