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So the 1920s, in true Enlightenment thinking tradition, effectively put a name to something that's been around for thousands of years?

It always struck me more as the nuclear family being the more streamlined version of the extended family model. They might look a little bit different, but it's still the same beast and it can quite happily operate within the extended family model.

Sort of, sort of not. A bit of an instinctual desire for such things is very much present for the human animal. Thanks to history and the like we do have some idea of what life was like and I think there's a growing feeling that "maybe some things should have stayed that way."