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The Nuclear Family Is Still Indispensable
Rumors of its demise have been greatly exaggerated—and it remains the stablest environment in which to raise children.
By W. Bradford Wilcox and Hal Boyd
A family of four
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February 21, 2020
About the authors: W. Bradford Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, is senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Hal Boyd is an associate professor of family law and policy at Brigham Young University’s School of Family Life and a fellow of the Wheatley Institution.
The nuclear family is disintegrating—or so Americans might conclude from what they watch and read. The quintessential nuclear family consists of a married couple raising their children. But from Oscar-winning Marriage Story’s gut-wrenching portrayal of divorce or the Harvard sociologist Christina Cross’s New York Times op-ed in December, “The Myth of the Two-Parent Home,” discounting the importance of marriage for kids, one might draw the conclusion that marriage is more endangered than ever—and that this might not be such a bad thing.
Yet the search for alternate forms of family has two major flaws. First, there’s evidence indicating that the nuclear family is, in fact, recovering. Second, a nuclear family headed by two loving married parents remains the most stable and safest environment for raising children.
