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nuclear family
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family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more)
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- Subclass of
- family
- Named after
- dry goods
- Image
- W.H. Shumard family, circa 1955.jpg
- Has parts of class
- child
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- Gezin
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- Family
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Encyclopedic overview
A portrait of the Shumard family in Seattle, Washington, c. 1955 (during the mid-century baby boom), illustrating the stereotypical structure of a nuclear family
A nuclear family – also called an elementary family, atomic family, or conjugal family – is a family group consisting of two parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence. The term is used in contrast to both a single-parent family and a larger extended family (which may include more than two parents). A nuclear family typically centers on a married couple that may have any number of children.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nuclear family” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.