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GFK_of_xmaspast on May 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: For first time since 1880s, more young Americans l...

> There, you had either nuclear families, or singles, or wealthy families complete with servants and maids.

On what are you basing this?

guard-of-terra on May 25, 2016 [–]

Singles always arrived in cities from countryside, where they formed families, and they could only have multi-gen families after a few generations. By then they had money for maids.

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