Unemployment diminishes paternal authority within families, especially for older children.

Evidence

The results confirmed once again what Sternheim had written in 1933 in his review article on New Literature on Unemployment and the Family,' and what had been shown by the Studies on Authority and the Family: that the authority of the father within the family was often diminished by unemployment. The older the children, the more it diminished, and the extent to which it did so depended on the family's authority structure in the period preceding unemployment. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 690</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

On the whole, the results confirmed the Studien’s argument about the decline of the contemporary family’s authority. They also implied the increased atomization of man in mass society, for, as Miss Komarovsky wrote, “the unemployed man and his wife have no social life outside the family. The extent of the social isolation of the family is truly striking."" — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 438 (#expands, via linked claim)

Ahmad, like many immigrants, is a victim of economic migrancy—a life world that replaces patriarchal and heteronormative familial and kin relationships with fast friendships, social networks of necessity, and fictive kin. This disruption of heteronormativity is part of male migrancy, a disruption that is doubled, and perhaps tripled, for queer migrants who do not fit into established patterns of patriarchal families in their home countries and are cast out. … Disrupting stereotypes of Muslim patriarchy and masculinity, Ahmad gives up his life as a rock star and his home, to move to New York to marry the woman he loves and begin a new life as a pushcart vendor. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 880 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Paternal authority within families diminishes with unemployment — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 690; Mass unemployment isolates families and weakens parental authority — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 438; Male economic migrancy disrupts rather than reinforces patriarchal family structures — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 880

Broader Connections

• Paternal authority within families diminishes with unemployment #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 690
• Mass unemployment isolates families and weakens parental authority #expands (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 438
• Male economic migrancy disrupts rather than reinforces patriarchal family structures #corroborates (0.80) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 880