Studies in American Historical Demography 1979
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-722050-5.50010-5
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Family Structure in Seventeenth-Century Andover, Massachusetts

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“…Over the next two decades, Laslett and his followers elaborated a theory that Northwest Europe had, from a very early date, a unique family system characterized by nuclear family structure and neolocal marriage (Hajnal 1982; Laslett 1983; Reher 1998). Almost immediately after Laslett’s first publications on the family, historians asserted that nuclear families had also been standard in England’s North American colonies from the time of earliest settlement (Demos 1965; Greven 1966). American social historians were soon among the most prominent and enthusiastic supporters of the hypothesis that the nuclear family had predominated for centuries in both North America and Northwest Europe (e.g., Hareven 1994, 1996).…”
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“…Over the next two decades, Laslett and his followers elaborated a theory that Northwest Europe had, from a very early date, a unique family system characterized by nuclear family structure and neolocal marriage (Hajnal 1982; Laslett 1983; Reher 1998). Almost immediately after Laslett’s first publications on the family, historians asserted that nuclear families had also been standard in England’s North American colonies from the time of earliest settlement (Demos 1965; Greven 1966). American social historians were soon among the most prominent and enthusiastic supporters of the hypothesis that the nuclear family had predominated for centuries in both North America and Northwest Europe (e.g., Hareven 1994, 1996).…”
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“…1 Demos (1970) and Greven (1978) report that only small proportions of colonial households in communities were nonnuclear; it was more common for elderly parents to locate one or more children nearby in separate dwellings. In contrast, Ruggles (1994) finds that a large proportion of elders lived with kin in Maryland in the late eighteenth century.…”
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