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In his study entitled “A Runaway World?”, Leach addresses family in industrial societies from a pessimistic point of view. Leach shows that in small-scale pre-industrial societies, the family is a part of a wider kinship network and this network provides people more support than the nuclear family. On the other hand, nuclear family in industrial societies is isolated from the wider kinship network and people lack their kin’s individual and continuous moral support. In the isolated nuclear family, members expect and demand too much from each other but cannot meet the expectations of other members. For Leach, the result of this increased stress between the spouses and the stress between the parents and the children is conflict. Leach argues that because of the privacy of the nuclear family, family members cling to each other and consider themselves as being separated and isolated from the wider society. For Leach, this consideration may create suspicion and fear of outsiders, and this fear may lead to greater violence in society.