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David Brooks: The nuclear family was a mistake
Yet the search for alternate forms of family has two major flaws. First, there's evidence indicating that the nuclear family is, in fact, recovering. Second, a nuclear family headed by two loving married parents remains the most stable and safest environment for raising children.

There are, of course, still reasons for legitimate concern about the state of the American family. Marriage today is less likely to anchor family life in many poor and working-class communities. While a majority of college-educated men and women between 18 and 55 are married, that's no longer true for the poor (only 26 percent are married) and the working class (39 percent). What's more, children from these families are markedly less likely to live under the same roof as their biological parents than their peers from better-off backgrounds are.

But there is also ample good news-especially for kids.

Today, the divorce rate is down, having fallen by more than 30 percent since peaking around 1980, in the wake of the divorce revolution. And, since the Great Recession, out-of-wedlock births are now dipping as well. Less divorce and less nonmarital childbearing means that more children are being raised in stable, married families. Since 2014, the share of kids in intact families has begun to climb, reversing a decades-long trend in the opposite direction. And as Brooks noted-citing research that one of us conducted at the University of Virginia -the nuclear family headed by married parents remains a personal ideal even among men and women who harbor no moral objections to alternative family structures.

None of this suggests that scholars and social commentators are wrong to extol the role extended families can play in improving children's lives. In her New York Times article raising questions about the importance of the two-parent home, Cross hypothesized that living closer to extended family may actually be helping protect black children "against some of the negative effects associated with parental absence from the home." And, in Brooks's evocative telling, the alternatives to the nuclear family hold enormous promise: "Americans are hungering to live in extended and forged families," arrangements that "allow more adults and children to live and grow under the loving gaze of a dozen pairs of eyes, and be caught, when they fall, by a dozen pairs of arms."

Grandparents, for example, are sharing homes with children and grandchildren; single adults and single parents are forging novel alliances on websites like CoAbode, where, according to Brooks, "single mothers can find other single mothers interested in sharing a home." These emerging arrangements not only afford people more freedom to choose their own ties that bind, but they also promise to fill the void left in the absence of a strong nuclear family.

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such households.sara mclanahan of princeton university

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breakdown of the nuclear family.david brooks

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work of the harvard sociologist robert sampson

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The Nuclear Family Is Still Indispensable

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David Brooks: The nuclear family was a mistake Yet the search for alternate forms of family has two major flaws. First, there's evidence indicating that the nuclear family is, in fact, recovering. Second, a nuclear family headed by two loving married parents remains the most stable and safest environment for raising children.

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A STRONG  BOND BETWEEN NUCLEAR FAMILY ....

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A STRONG  BOND BETWEEN NUCLEAR FAMILY ....

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" How do we still support nuclear ideals about family in children's  literature ?

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" How do we still support nuclear ideals about family in children's  literature ?

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Nuclear families still plays an imperative role in the society where only two married pairs live together and do child - rearing to ensure the good environment and favorable conditions to their progeny. Conjugal families always try to maintain stability in their family relations and in their economy status which  basically binds them altogether under the  same roof . Moreover, in the small families parents do influence their children in different curricular activities and assist them in their journey of learning and understanding new things that 's why we still reinforce nuclear ideals about family in children ' s literature.

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Sacristan, P. (n.d.) The birth of the turtles.

Frank, A. ( 1948). The diary of the young girl.

Joshi, M. (n.d.) Silver wedding.

Singh, K.( 2007). The portrait of a lady.

Jung, A. ( 1964) . Lost spring .

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. Sahiba is an educated girl who wants to be an independent woman in the society and to fulfill all her desires but never allowed to step out from the house without taking permission, in addition to it she is not allowed to remove her veil until the males of the family go outside at their workplace. After reading this story I believe that there are some cultural barriers that may give a sense of inferiority complex to the women.    

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Mukesh, his elder brother, and his father run the family. However, his sister-in-law is allowed to stay at home and to make meals for the entire family and to take care of his grandmother. 

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STORY 5: 
Name of the story: The lost spring 
Main characters in the story: Mukesh (a car mechanic), his sister-in-law (Sahiba), elder brother and his father and his grandmother.
Moral of the story: To never give up dreams and to remove all the orthodox thinking.
Mukesh is a man who comes from a joint family who is quite poor, and all the family members are engaging in the bangle making profession in an ancient factory. 

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. He explains the importance of the old member in the extended family who always assist in decision making, sharing lifetime experiences and tries to bind all family together with a strong knot and helps in passing cultural legacies and customs to the next generation. This story emphasizes the value of a joint family and the role of grandparents in raising their families and giving them unconditional love. (Singh, n.d.)

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helped him to get ready for the school. Moreover, he talks about the unbreakable bond with his grandmother and how both became good friends when his parents left him with his grandmother when decided to live in the city. 

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STORY 4: 
Name of the story: The portrait of a lady.
Main characters of the story: writer (Khushwant Singh), grandmother.
Moral of the story: To love and respect our grandparents.
In this story, the writer is telling about his relationship with his grandmother who had passed away. He tries to recall all those memories of the past that he had spent with his grandma in his joint family, he recalls about that golden time when his grandmother used to tell him bedtime stories, drop him to the school and 

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, on the other side his wife Sushma always try to pamper and support her children due to which he may feel back seated and disappointed .This story illustrates about the fragile relationship between Yashodhara and his children  when things get so complexed . After reading the story I personally believe that due to modernization the upcoming generation do not wants to adjust with their parents just because of mismatch of their opinions and their attitudes although, parents do care of their child and always ask for their well-being and success.  

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STORY 3:
Name of the story: silver wedding 
Main characters of the story: Yashodhara (father), Nita, Aman, Sahil (3 children) and Sushma (wife of Yashodhara) 
Main theme behind the story: Generation gap between the parents and children. (Binchy, n.d.)
This story highlights the issue of the generation gap between the different age groups. Yashodhara who is a diligent and simple person in his  nuclear family, who  finds himself in a trouble where he has to cooperate with his three contemporary children who always like to go with the updated fashion 

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In this book she explained about the importance and robustness of nuclear family that can help to remove the barriers from life. Anne along with her family stayed at least for 2 years when her family received a summon from Nazi Concentration Camp. In her diary she explains how her father had managed to nurture and stable the economy to run the livelihood smoothly Moreover, she had described a little about her hiding space that was behind the motile bookcase in her father ‘s office. In this book she explained about all the laborious situations that the whole family faced together. Anne was quite close to her father and used to share all her feelings and emotions with him as she believed that she was blessed with a nice family when she compared herself with those who had lost their families during war. (Pressler, 1944)

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STORY 2: 
 Name of the book: The diary of a young girl 
Main characters of the story: Anne Frank (the writer of the story), Margot Frank, Otto Frank, Edith Frank.
Location of the story: Frankfurt (Germany) 
Moral value of the story: Strength of the family and right to liberty.
Author of the book: Anne Frank.
In this story the writer (Anne Frank) comes from a nuclear family and   tells little bit about her elementary family that how did her parents grew up they’re both the daughters in an analytic situation that took place in Germany during the second world war. She tells each part of her life that she had faced together with her family during World War 2. 

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decided to take her near to the sea beach where her mother would hatch the eggs .. Daddy turtle asked her to be quiet and hidden near the bushes and not to make any noise until mother hatched her eggs, After some time, everything messed up together when  few eagles and other birds attacked the newborn baby turtles while they were trying to come out from the sea at that time father had tried each of the possibilities to save the life of his baby turtles by putting his life into danger situation.
My point of view after reading the story is that families who live nuclear always try to provide best to their children and wants to spend most of their time with them in order to build child’s development and a healthy environment regardless of any hindrance in their path of learning. (Sacristan, n.d.)

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NAME OF THE STORY: THE BIRTH OF THE TURTLES 
MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE STORY: AMANDA (a girl turtle), her father and her two elder brothers and her mother.
LOCATION OF THE STORY: Near the sea beach in the dead night.
MORAL VALUE OF THE STORY: The message of the story is to always pay respect and love to your family and to ensure their safety. 
 The story is based on the ideal conjugal family where there are basically 5 main members in the turtle’s family the father, mother and the baby girl turtle whose name is Amanda and her two elder brothers. The entire story conveys the message about the importance of the nuclear family and the roles of the parents in children’s upbringing. In this story father seems to be the protector for its family during any trouble he acts as a strong iron pillar for its family and mother is allowed to look after their babies .The story depicts about the situation when each and every member in the turtle family were waiting for the new arrival of baby turtles in their family ,Amanda was very exhilarated as she wanted to see her siblings and  to do their warm welcome in the family therefore, daddy turtle 