The male-breadwinner nuclear family is a recent invention, not a timeless norm

Evidence

The nuclear family structured around a male breadwinner was in fact of recent invention, arising in the 1920s and peaking in the 1950s and 1960s; before then, multigenerational families relying on multiple contributors to the family economy had been the norm. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 85

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s A Midwife’s Tale, which documents pre-modern multigenerational household economies where women’s labor was integral.