What do we mean when we say "Economic growth and industrialization in some parts of the world have reduced drastically the family or communal component of marriage while the individual position in marriage arrangement has become the norm in these industrialized and highly urbanized societies"?

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It means that the family structure changed from a 3 or more generational group (grandparents, parents and children) to a 2 generational group (only parents and children) and that the families are no longer compounded in a small zone but scattered over the residential area.