We Never Were , Stephanie Coontz 1. Child labor for many families, including slavery. Presence of servants in the house. They moved from community to community. We have less contact with grandparents.
More children have only one parent.
Marriage was stronger in the past. Coontz argues that the family of the 1950s was quite novel, and not at all traditional. Both men and women were to root their identities in family. Not having children became perverse. Men forced to marry in order to be considered normal.