: a family group that consists only of parents and children
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So if the nuclear family is not for you, what other options are there?—Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025 But humanity has yet to devise a method of raising children superior to the nuclear family.—Judy Berman, Time, 29 Sep. 2025 His unresolved issues from childhood manifest in the need to keep the dream of a nuclear family alive at all costs.—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025 He was raised kind of running around the streets, not with a nuclear family.—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nuclear family
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