Talk:Household

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Just because the IRS changes their definition of what a taxable household is, doesn't mean the rest of the world follows. To state and restate that a household is not a synonym of family is false.

From Webster's 1913 dictionary: http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=Household

Household (Page: 709)

House"hold` (?), n.

1. Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.

--Connel MacKenzie 07:23, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)

I don't think the "rest of the world" follows Webster's 1913 dictionary. Why don't we keep it simple and follow Wiktionary's definition and say that a household may or may not be a family? Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 06:15, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC)

Expansion request

I would be interested in seeing a discussion of household size, and the demographics of how it has changed over time in various places. -- Beland 07:59, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Social and other dimensions to household

Obviously we have some work to do on this article.

Among many other things I think we need to flesh out the meaning of 'household' in social theory, and specify how 'household' relates to 'home', 'residence', 'abode', 'dwelling', 'family'.

SeventhHell (talk) 06:46, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Query existence of Household Help!

Has anyone heard of this so-called parody program Household Help!? (the very last section of the article). The article link for it showed as 'does not exist' so I removed it, I googled around and could find no such progam. Can anyone attest to the existence of such a program? I don't know what we do about that, I guess I will insert a tag and see what happens. SeventhHell (talk) 12:33, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Nuclear family not the most common structure anymore

Per the sources in Nuclear family, nuclear family amounts to 24.1% of US households in 2000. So the statement "...especially in western societies where the nuclear family has become the most common family structure" is not true. At least not any longer and not in the United States. Actually the "Married without children" and "Single" categories are both higher than the "Nuclear" family category for the US, and together they appear to be slightly more, than twice the percentage of the "Nuclear" category. This change may, or may not, be true for other Western countries, but it needs to be clarified, or removed as misleading. I'm tagging that statement with {{fact}} for the time being. — Becksguy (talk) 21:51, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

PS - Changed to {{dubious}} tag — Becksguy (talk) 22:15, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I've looked up the edit history and asked Feco to check it out.SeventhHell (talk) 06:04, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

i don't think "single" count as family. nor do i think childless couples doesn't count as 'Nuclear family'. Nuclear family is a term used in comparison with larger Extended family, and non of those are extended, they are still smaller. it might be reword to better fit the context, i don't think the way it discuss Nuclear family has much input on how it differ from household. 218.186.12.245 (talk) 20:45, 9 November 2009 (UTC)