: a family group that consists only of parents and children
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Among many other things, Firestone wanted to abolish gender, capitalism, monogamy, childbirth, and the nuclear family model.—Hazlitt, 11 June 2025 The audience experiences how Keisha lives humbly in an apartment in Windsor Hills with her single mom, compared to Justin who has a very nuclear family who resides in View Park.—Malik Peay, Essence, 12 June 2025 Understanding Financial Dynamics In Blended Families Working through financial dynamics in a blended family is naturally more complicated than working through differences in financial priorities in a traditional nuclear family.—Cicely Jones, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025 But most are united in the belief that modern culture has failed to adequately prioritize the value of nuclear families and making lots of babies.—Lisa Hagen, NPR, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nuclear family
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