The present article presents some of the more salient results of a research
project on family and society in the province of Cuenca in Spain between the eighteenth
century and 1970. Based fundamentally, though not exclusively, on the Laslett-Hammel
classification system, the data gathered reveal the overwhelming predominance of simple
family forms throughout the province and in different social groups, as well as the lack
of any fundamental evolution during the more than 200 years studied. The determinants
of the system, its implications, as well as the reasons for its long-term stability, are all
examined in the light of demographic, economic, geographical and cultural factors.
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