The nuclear family is a lie. Humans form all sorts of bonds, and that is normal.
For a child, the best thing is if they have lots of safe adults of varying genders, life experiences, and ages in their life who are interested in investing time in them. And they should have a stable home life, things should be predictable and steady (even though life isn’t).
So basically, it could be an upside, depending on what sort of non-nuclear family you meant, or it could be bad if that was accompanied with instability and stress.
What do you mean by benefit? There are benefits to being single and childless, like being able to make more independent decisions and being free of the responsibility of childcare
Being able to travel far without feeling homesick, and not dealing with radiation
Multigenerational household have many benefits for sure. There are cost benefits due to purchasing at scale and consolidating housing. There are also benefits to having multiple people with multiple skills able to contribute and assist with household tasks and personal errands.
There are also a lot of downsides 😳
There’s also the benefit commingling of assets and having your
guild leadersparents dictate your finances. Very lovely.And then if they ever do sketchy thing like… idk maybe they “forgot to fill out some of their income”, you get dragged down with the entire family, like a mafia family. Who doesnt love this arrangement?
I don’t have a family at all and the benefits are endless in the form of sleep, free time, money, and so on.
Define “benefit”?
I mean it depends on what non-nuclear features a family has. I could definitely see some upsides to having a third parent.
I think in the example of adding a third parent, this wouldnt take away from the nuclear family, but add to it no? The third parent would just be a part of the nuclear family unit. Nuclear definition, doesnt change if you have 1 kid, or 8. So, I dont think it would change for having more parents?
The definition of a nuclear family, per Wikipedia, is strictly two parents:
A nuclear family – also called an elementary family, atomic family, or conjugal family – is a family group consisting of two parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence.
