: a family group that consists only of parents and children
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We aren’t treated to a valorization of the nuclear family, or an African spin on resurgent tradwifery, or a paeon to the miracles of motherhood.—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2025 Musk's decision to father children with multiple women has attracted criticism from some social conservatives, who believe in the nuclear family centered around a mother and father.—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025 The entire final sequence, which sees Carter, with a rictus grin, slaughtering his wife in the kitchen, envisions the self-destruction of the nuclear family.—Beatrice Loayza, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025 Image Financially unstable, Griffin’s own nuclear family is also threatening to split up.—Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nuclear family
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