The Nuclear Family Is a Mistake

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Roxanne Jones: We have so exalted the nuclear family as the endall and ball of social existence. She says there's very few options for you if you don't find your way into a nuclear family. Jones: The decline of our social institutions that previously would have provided something of an extended web of relationships has been so hollowed out.

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Show Notes:

-Carol Graham: Premature Mortality and the Long Decline of Hope in America

-Social Capital Project - Opioid Overdoses by Demographic

-The college connection: The education divide in American social and community life

-David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake

-Nancy French: What civility really means