nuclear family
a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.: Compare extended family (def. 1), immediate family.
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How to use nuclear family in a sentence
Social scientists such as Eric Klinenberg and Bella DePaulo show that for an increasing number of us, the “traditional” nuclear family model of living, with breadwinner husband, dependent wife and two or three children, is no longer relevant.
What the Rise and Fall of the Cinderella Fairy Tale Means for Real Women Today | Carol Dyhouse | April 19, 2021 | TimeMy diagnosis wreaked havoc on each member of my nuclear family, harming them, hurting them, for many years.
My life was upended for 35 years by a cancer diagnosis. A doctor just told me I was misdiagnosed. | Jeff Henigson | March 26, 2021 | Washington PostThis phrase became a defining characteristic of second wave feminism at a time when women and others challenged the institutions of marriage, the nuclear family and its values and state control of women’s reproductive rights.
Fifty years later, ‘Tapestry’s’ hope and optimism still resonates | Tanya Pearson | February 26, 2021 | Washington PostInside the home, the concept of the nuclear family was shaken by rising divorce rates.
The McDonald’s Commercials That Live in Our Minds, Rent Free | MM Carrigan | December 18, 2020 | EaterThe solution was to convert the domestic security of the nation into the domestic security of the nuclear family.
The original work of Bowen was focused on the dynamics within a nuclear family.
The nuclear family always, just like religion, must be destroyed and in its place, the community, collective.
Melissa Harris-Perry and the Firestorm Over ‘Collective’ Parenting | David Freedlander | April 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI also never had a positive experience with the nuclear family.
Why I Choose to Be Child-Free: Readers Share Their Stories | Harry Siegel | February 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was one thing to defend family values when there was something like the traditional nuclear family.
Santorum’s ‘Positive’ Qualities Will Soon Look Like Dead Weight | Lee Siegel | February 11, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHis aunt, Lilian, who lives with the nuclear family of three, often served as his back-up dancer.
The nuclear family of the civilization of literacy has been absorbed in the illiterate dynamics of societal functioning.
The Civilization of Illiteracy | Mihai NadinWithin the nuclear family the relationship between husband and wife became a more egalitarian one.
Area Handbook for Bulgaria | Eugene K. Keefe, Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Anne K. Long, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
British Dictionary definitions for nuclear family
sociol anthropol a primary social unit consisting of parents and their offspring: Compare extended family
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Cultural definitions for nuclear family
A type of family made up only of parents and their children. (Compare extended family.)
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