Elena’s Reviews > Prolonged Connections: The Rise of the Extended Family in Nineteenth Century England and America > Status Update

“…my investigation of the demography and economics of extended families is still drastically oversimplified. What is worse, I have been totally unsuccessful at demonstrating the insignificance of the material sphere.
I have been unable to show that the effects of demography were trivial; to my dismay, I have shown the critical importance of demographic change to the rise of the extended family.” (pg10)