Family Relations in Early Modern England A New Approach 【English title】 New Approach: Reassessing the Family Relationship in Early Modern England 【Summary】 since the second half of the 20th century, the West family history research center of gravity has gone from the family structure to changes in family relationships, and once formed a relationship early modern family, “loose” said and “apathy” said. More recent of the British study of early modern family relations, new results have made important amendments, re-affirmed the family kinship care and family support networks in the modern social transformation in the status and role. Articles from the reciprocity theory and parent-child relations, social capital and kinship two aspects of the Review, emphasizing the new direction for deepening understanding of the UK features of early modern meaning. 【English Abstract Since the second part of the 20th century, there has been a shift in the res earch field of western family history, concerning from the family structure to the family relationship.Once in this trend, family relationship in early mo dern England was featured by historians in terms of “loose” and “shallowness”. Recent research suggests that, this view is no longer sustainable, and that the emotional relation and kinship is of great importance in the transit ion to modern society.This article, by studying reciprocity theory and parent-child nexus as well as social capital and kinship, emphasizes the significan ce of this new approach for a further analysis to the early modernization in English society. 【Key Words】 English / Early Modern / family relations / family relationship / early modern / England 【Text】 Family history as a branch of the history of Western society in recent years made a series of new important results. One particularly striking aspect is the study on family kinship. This paper on the results of the more prominent problems in family relations in Early Modern England a brief Commentary, with a view to the social transformation in modern Western Europe, changes in family relations, a better understanding. 1, from the family structure to the study of family relationships West, a major breakthrough in study of family history, first of all from the family structure reconstruction. University of Cambridge, established in 1964, “History of Population and Social Structure Research Group,” the use of computer processing the data in the parish register, but also with “Family Reconstruction Law” to be analyzed, the final book became the “Population History of England ,1541-1871 Year “(1981), such a study population of the authority of history and family history books. Preparation for the 1969 Study Group family history of international academic conferences, after the publication entitled “the history of the family and home” (1972) a collection of essays, to promote the development of the family history of disciplines. Research family size and family size, is to reconstruct the history of the premise of the family structure. Pre-industrial England the type of family structure and its differences with the rest of Europe is the historians who study the subject. For the French sociologist Frederic Leplay (1806-1882) the “backbone-type family” (mainly parents and married children and their descendants) to the “core-type family” (parents and unmarried children) transition is the product of industrialization hypothesis 1 (p. 22) in order to Laslett (Peter Laslett), Cambridge, led by the population group of the detailed verification and get rid of the early modern family “myth.” According to the research, the United Kingdom in the 16th century the average family size of 4.5 persons, 17,18 to the 19th century, the average size is maintained at a level of about 4.75 persons, trunk-style extended family is not dominant, population structure is relatively simple nuclear family In the pre-industrial has long existed for several centuries. This research type is also known as “family history of demography”, which includes fertility, mortality and family factors such as population size, and history is very closely associated with demographic, the whole family an important basis for study of the history level. 80 years since the 20th century onwards, following the structure of the family studies, family relations, family historians, the Western main areas of concern. Mike Fallon (Alan Macfarlane) that a long time, anthropologists have been relatives of family relations as the core of understanding of the community, but historians have seemed slow to reflect this. Wrightson (Keith Wrightson) is more sharply pointed out, historians know little about these issues, “almost has not yet opened its surface,” however, “will eventually prove than the original structure of the family issues are more imp