A working nuclear family lacks structural social capital.

Evidence

However, the nuclear family itself, in which one or both parents work outside the home, can be seen as structurally deficient, lacking the social capital that comes with the presence of parents during the day, or with grandparents or aunts and uncles in or near the household. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 154

Categorization

• SHARE: Worth sending to someone who works in family policy or education — a crisp reframing of the nuclear family as structurally deficient.
• XREF: Connects to James Coleman’s broader social capital theory and to the two-parent-work tradeoff debates. — connects to: Declining family and community bonds shrink each generation’s human capital. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 231; Declining family and community capital will reduce human capital unless formal organizations substitute — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 231

Related

• Declining family and community capital will reduce human capital unless formal organizations substitute (similarity 0.86)
• Children need adults’ presence and attention to access parents’ human capital (similarity 0.85)
• Declining family and community bonds shrink each generation’s human capital. (similarity 0.85)
• Parental human capital only benefits a child’s development when family relationships activate it. (similarity 0.83)
• Strong parent-child relations are required to transmit parental human capital (similarity 0.81)
• Parents low in formal schooling can still provide high social capital for children’s education (similarity 0.81)
• Community social capital substitutes for missing family social capital. (similarity 0.80)
• Family background splits into financial, human, and social capital that affect achievement differently (similarity 0.80)
• Communal social capital shapes children’s development beyond family resources. (similarity 0.80)
• Parental education only benefits children when strong family relationships transmit it. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Declining family and community bonds shrink each generation’s human capital. #expands (0.78) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 231