The rest of the paragraph is reprinted below. Read on to see if your expectations are confirmed. Historians have found evidence that households in pre-industrial Westem Europewere already nuclear and could not have been greatly transformed by economic changes. Rather than finding definite decrease in household size, we find surprisingly small variations, which turn out to be a result of presence or absence of servants rather than relatives. Peter Laslett, one of the foremost analysts of the pre-industrial family, argues that most households in the past were actually quite small. Patterns may have varied somewhat from one area to another, but it seems unlikely that in the past few centuries many families in England or America had grandparents living with them. 8. Were your predictions confirmed?