: a family group that consists only of parents and children
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The Sopranos and Succession were also about the flawed nuclear family struggling against modernity.—Grace Byron, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025 The series was revived several times in the 1970s and ’80s, making the typical nuclear family that happens to live in outer space familiar to several generations of viewers.—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025 Black nuclear families, like the one Cardi B (who is Afro-Latina) was part of for the past seven years, are actually on the rise, according to Christina Cross, a professor, researcher, and sociologist at Harvard University who has studied this subject extensively.—Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025 So if the nuclear family is not for you, what other options are there?—Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nuclear family
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