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nuclear family (plural nuclear families)

1. The traditional western family unit, consisting of two parents (traditionally a mother and a father) and their children.

   Coordinate terms: extended family, immediate family, joint family, stem family

   • 2020 March, David Brooks, “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake”, in The Atlantic‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 March 2020:

     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.

Further reading

• nuclear family on Wikipedia.Wikipedia