The shift from agricultural to industrial economies has made the family's economic purpose more central than its reproductive and socializing functions.

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The shift from agricultural to industrial economies has actually made the family's reproductive and socializing functions more central, while its economic purpose has become less central. Industrialization allowed for the separation of work from home, and the rise of wage labor which meant that families no longer relied solely on their own production for survival. As a result, the family's economic purpose became less central than its reproductive and socializing functions.

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