英国是工业革命的发源地和第一个工业化国家,16—19世纪中叶期间,它正处于为工业革命作准备并使之迅速发展的时期,其经济、政治、宗教、思想、文化等各个领域都发生了一场深刻的变化,逐步从传统的农业社会向现代的工业社会转型。但作为社会细胞的家庭却具有很大的延续性,表现在家庭结构上一直以核心家庭为主体,并没有经历一个逐渐由扩展家庭为主体转变为核心家庭为主体的过程。 Britain was the birthplace of the industrial revolution and the first industrialized country. During the mid-16th and 16th centuries, it was in the period of preparation and rapid development for the industrial revolution. Its economy, politics, religion, ideology, culture and other fields Have undergone a profound change, and gradually transformed from a traditional agricultural society to a modern industrial society. However, the family as a social cell has a great continuity. It shows that the family structure has always been centered on the core family and has not undergone a process of gradually changing from expanding the family as the main body to the core family as the main body.