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It's not that nuclear families didn't exist at all, but that they typically existed as sub-units of extended families and were not thought of as the exclusively standalone units of the 1920s concept.

I was agreeing with you, and citing the nuclear family as an example of "what you think is traditional is not".

The so-called nuclear family is the ur-example of, "What you think is traditional is nothing of the sort." Even the *term itself* has no documented history of being used prior to the mid-1920s, and its mainstream dominance is very much a product of urban life in the industrial revolution. The...