Do you think that family ties have become weaker throughout evolution and if so in what ways?

Answer 1

In our (American) family bonds are less noticable. I think it's mainly the need to move on, make money and become a responsible adult. We are neither hunters nor gatherers, our sustanance comes from outside our familial circle. In tribal societies (Africa, Australia) the family bond is much stronger as well as more integrated because the need to support one another (with food / water / shelter) is totally in the groups power.

Evolution... we're devolving... people with lower IQ's have more brats than people with higher IQ's. Welfare collectors and SSI beneficiaries mooching off of people who bust their ***... enlist them in the military.

Answer 2

Not really.

Aboriginal people traded women to try to ensure peaceful relationships between groups, and, unknownst to them, diversify the gene pool. This is probably what occurred during prehistoric times. The Birdsell Theory states that 25 is the optimal number for a group of hunter-gatherers. How much contact did these groups have? Well, if aboriginal peoples of the last few centuries are any incidation, only occasionally. That covers evolution.

In "modern" times, in patriarchal societies, women traditionally moved to their husband's clan or family, and place of residence. And in some societies, were / are treated like slaves, or worse.

Black culture is often considered matriarchal. In that case, the extended family was a network of women related by blood or marriage.

In our Westward Expansion and immigration eras, nuclear families often moved away from their place of origin.

I think the ideal of the close-knit extended family is an ideal, since half of the members are there by marriage anyway.

Answer 3

Yes because families move apart ,the miles separate our lives. Evolution has less to do with it . More like jobs and automobiles