multigenerational family
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmultigenerationalandfamily
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multigenerational
adjective
uk/ˌmʌl.ti.dʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən.əl/us/ˌmʌl.ti.dʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən.əl/
consisting of or relating to more than one generation (= a group of people of about the ...
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family
noun
uk/ˈfæm.əl.i/us/ˈfæm.əl.i/
a group of people who are related to each other, such as a mother, a father, and ...
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Whatever the explanation, it is doubtful that fertility decline can help explain the decline of themultigenerationalfamily.
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It turns out that sickness and disability were not associated withmultigenerationalfamilycomposition.
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Behavioral disinhibition induced by tryptophan depletion in nonalcoholic young men withmultigenerationalfamilyhistories of paternal alcoholism.
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Other indicators of socio-economic status confirm the finding that high economic status was associated withmultigenerationalfamilycomposition in the nineteenth century.
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Taken as a whole, the evidence on the class patterns ofmultigenerationalfamilycomposition in the nineteenth century is irresistible.
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According to this interpretation, themultigenerationalfamilywas a normal stage of the pre-industrial family cycle.
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Thus, most historians maintain, the elderly in themultigenerationalfamilywas usually the dependent generation, and the younger generation took in their needy elders because of altruism.
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Despite these limitations, the occupational data is invaluable because it provides our only means of tracing the long-run trend in the relationship between economic status andmultigenerationalfamilycomposition.
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The article concludes that the rise of wage labour since the later nineteenth century undermined themultigenerationalfamilyby reducing the incentives for the young to reside with their parents.
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But the evidence on headship and on the age pattern of co-residence suggests that nuclear reincorporation was not the dominant mechanism of multigenerational families.
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The hypothesis that multigenerational families were formed when dependent elderly moved in with their children fits reasonably well with the evidence from the twentieth century.
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This article argues that multigenerational families were almost universal among the aged population of the mid-nineteenth century.
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The reason is simple : it was the rich who most often resided in multigenerational families.
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Most other historians working in this area have a very different interpretation of the formation of multigenerational families in the nineteenth century.
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This essay uses new sources and methods to challenge the revisionist interpretation of multigenerational families in the nineteenth century.
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High fertility also limited the potential number of multigenerational families.
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Headship patterns offer a second clue to the formation of multigenerational families.
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The wealthiest elderly were the ones most likely to reside in multigenerational families.
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The census is a cross-section of the population at a given moment, so it cannot directly tell us how multigenerational families came about.
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