What type of family is thought to be the oldest form of the family?
A family consisting of two married adults, along with their offspring, usually living in a private and separate dwelling is the type of family thought to be the oldest family.
What change occurred in gender role in the modern family that emerged after the Industrial Revolution?
The change that occured in gender role in the modern family that emerged after the industrial revolution were the patriarchal rule began to give way to greater equality between the sexes. Similarly, family roles once considered exclusively male or female broke down. Caring for the home and children, once the exclusive duty of the female, is often a shared activity ,as, increasingly.is the earning of wages and the pursuit of public life, once the exclusive domain of the male.