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With whom did older persons reside in the past?

Thursday, February 20th, 2025

Richard Smith

It is commonplace to assume that, traditionally, care for older adults has been the responsibility of family members, and was provided within the extended family implying that elderly persons spent their declining years under the same roof as their married children. But work at Campop has shown that this residential arrangement was not actually the norm in the British past. 

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How modern is the modern family?

Thursday, July 11th, 2024

Kevin Schürer & Simon Szreter

Today the small nuclear family dominates across much of the world. Following World War II this prevailing family form was associated with modernity – the product of a post-industrial society. But just how modern is the modern nuclear family?  

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