nuclear family
English
Noun
nuclear family (plural nuclear families)
- A family unit consisting of two parents (traditionally a mother and a father) and their children.
- 2020 March, David Brooks, “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
- The initial result of that fragmentation, the nuclear family, didn’t seem so bad. But then, because the nuclear family is so brittle, the fragmentation continued. In many sectors of society, nuclear families fragmented into single-parent families, single-parent families into chaotic families or no families.
Coordinate terms
Translations
a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Further reading
- nuclear family on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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