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nuclear family
noun
a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
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World English Dictionary
| nuclear family | |
| —n | |
| sociol, anthropol Compare extended family a primary social unit consisting of parents and their offspring | |
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Medical Dictionary
nuclear family n.
A family unit consisting of a mother and father and their progeny.
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Cultural Dictionary
nuclear family definition
A type of family made up only of parents and their children. (Compare extended family.)
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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nuclear family
in sociology and anthropology, a group of people who are united by ties of partnership and parenthood and consisting of a pair of adults and their socially recognized children. Typically, but not always, the adults in a nuclear family are married. Although such couples are most often a man and a woman, the definition of the nuclear family has expanded with the advent of same-sex marriage. Children in a nuclear family may be the couple's biological or adopted offspring.
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Example sentences
Their decline discredited social models, such as the nuclear family, which had begun to replace the old patriarchal clan system.
Moreover, single-parent and stepparent families created a more extensive kinship network than the nuclear family.
The decline of communities appears to have followed the demise of the nuclear family.
After this celebration of the nuclear family comes the service itself.
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