With all my investigations about "sleeping together" under one roof,
I wanted to look how a nuclear family evolved during the centuries.
I came to the term because I wanted to start about a household of two persons and eventual children from one of the partners, from the two, or adopted children...
And there seems only one term for that? and it is "nuclear family" (famille nucléaire, kerngezin, Kernfamilie)
And there seem to be some controversies about the roots of that "nuclear family"
As one read this american Institute for family studies
https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-real-roots-of-the-nuclear-family/And yes it is perhaps a specific phenomenon to the Western Europe of the Middle Ages?
What I retained from this article was that they mentioned already a nuclear family in England from the 13th century on...and for me was that not so abnormal, as I was nearly sure that it existed already in the Duchy of Flanders and later in the Burgundian time...
And the history of the nuclear family from a business point of view?
https://bebusinessed.com/history/history-nuclear-families/And again the nuclear family in England from the 13th century on?
Searching for the history of the nuclear family in the Low Countries I came to this:
https://www.bol.com/nl/p/prinsen-en-poorters/666847162/https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/prev002prin01_01/prev002prin01_01_0010.phpAnd I point here especially to the "poorters" (burghers?) from that book:
http://www.etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/poorter1The burghers had more rights than every one of the same status in that specific time...
"Stadslucht maakt vrij"
https://historum.com/threads/urban-air-liberates-you-after-a-year-and-one-day.51453/page-3in English: "city air makes free"?...
From the book: "Prinsen en Poorters" that I just mentioned:
they take the city "Ieper" (Ypres) as example:
"In de periode 1412-37 telde een gemiddeld gezin in het industriële leper slechts 3,2 à 3,7 leden, maar in de welstellender wijken van de stad woonden tal van grote gezinnen en bedroeg dat gemiddelde 4,2. Er waren dus meerdere modellen. De omvang varieerde sterk: in 1412 bestond 23,3% van de gezinnen uit twee personen, 21,3% uit drie, 13,4% uit vier, 21,7% uit vijf en meer, en niet minder dan 20,3% uit alleenwonenden. Grote gezinnen waren in Ieper het gevolg van een groot kindertal of de aanwezigheid van huispersoneel. 14,1% van de gezinnen had meer dan vijf kinderen, 25,2% meer dan vier. In 1506 beschikten in de rijkste Ieperse wijk 149 op 489 gezinnen, 30% dus, over"Average family: 3.2 0 3.7 members. 1412: 23.3% two members, 21.3 three, 13.4 four and 21.7 five or more, but 20.3 lived alone!
Of course was the Catholic church guiding it all along their rules. But you don't believe it they let a loophole
:
"Hetzelfde Concilie liet een achterpoortje open: de formule van het clandestiene huwelijk, dat slechts de vrije instemming der partners en een geslaagde coïtus vereiste, niet de aanwezigheid van een priester. Het was geldig voor de twaalfde-eeuwse Kerk binnen de logica van de consensustheorie, van het onverbrekelijk sacrament en van de individuele verantwoordelijkheid van de gelovige tegenover God. Hiermee was de Kerk de normen van de burgerlijke samenleving een eind vooruit."The formula of the "clandestine" marriage: only the free consent of the partners and a "succesful" coitus. And there had not to be an official ceremony with a priest. And they founded it in the "consensus theory". But after a while they regretted it for the lack of money if there was no ceremony...and they changed the rules...
As I read the article from the book mentioned about the nuclear family in the 15th century in Burgundy, I think in the Europe of that time they were the most modern and emancipated, perhaps together with England. And perhaps in the world!
of those days?