THE EMERGENCE OF THE NUCLEAR FAMILY IN MEXICO

Abstract

Historians in Mexico have indicated that the nuclear family has already been existent since the colonial period (16th to 19th centuries), but there has been no identification of its similarities or differences with the contemporary nuclear family or with the Western nuclear family described in classical sociology. This article analyses the emergence of the nuclear family in Mexico and points to its particularities and differences in comparison with the Western nuclear family. This exploration departs from three analytic dimensions: family structure, family relationships, and kinship relationships. The thesis proposed is that, contrary to what has been asserted by some historians, the nuclear family, from a sociocultural viewpoint, did not emerge during the colonial period but during the independent one, at the end of the 19th century.

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