Alvin Toffler stated that most people are ignorant of the different forms of family! They think that only one form exist-and that is the NUCLEAR FORM!
What is a nuclear form of family? It is a family consisting of one husband, one wife and several or no children. With grandparents and other relatives not included...with these individual as also part of their own individual NUCLEAR FAMILY!
The nuclear form of family became popular only after the nuking of Japan...that is probably the reason why it was termed as NUCLEAR!
Most of us know that in the First Wave society (Agricultural society) men mostly practiced polygyny in order for them and their families to survive. The family forms were varied according to needs, but the popular form of family was the Patriarchal Form wherein the Father was the center of almost everything and in which the father had many wives and children as helps and arms against the forces that sought to destroy them. There were no hospitals, nor schools and many of the institutions now that exists! And husband needed the help meets and the children supporting one another in the farms...protecting each of the family members against robbers, bandits and even against pied pipers!
When the second wave of change (Industrial Revolution) came (according to A. Toffler in his book THE THIRD WAVE)... I reckon about 1800...men began to be highly mobil with the invention of the train and cars...and government and preachers began to popularize MONOGAMY and its resultant form of family-the monogamous form of family....then it came to pass that as time pass that men began to ENFORCE MONOGAMY FOR ALL MARRIED MEN! They knew that the monogamous form of family was easier for the government to control...it was fragile and got few members to be a serious treat to any TYRANNIC government! By 1945 when the Atomic Bomb was dropped...the monogamous form of fragile family was called NUCLEAR FORM!
Now, who designed this FRAGILE FORM of family...unlike the Patriarchal Form of family wherein a single man can have many allies through relationship with the family members of his wives....with each of his marriage making and forming combinations of families more stronger and more bigger....the nuclear form of family was wee wee!
The designer and enforcer of should be monogamy for knew that man was by nature polygamous and women were monogamous...they played this gender difference to the hilt to make families-especially the nuclear form explode when the husband of each family began to feel the urge of his manhood! They wanted to make it hard on the husband and engaging his wife as their blinded and deceived ally...just like the serpent did to Mother EVe!
So that today we see many of the nuclear form of family EXPLODING! "Victims of love...a broken down affair...so sad to see the debris scattered everywhere"....children suffering and both man and woman crying...asking why? They donot know that the doctrine of marriage and the resultant form of family it made was a BIG BIG LIE from the father of lies! The nuclear form of family was like a ticking time bomb...designed to explode in some moments of time! Now are they exploding like crazy!
Photo from Google of a lucky man marrying two sisters in Asia!
