Synonyms of nuclear families

nuclear families

noun

plural of nuclear family

as in blended families

the part of a family that includes only the father, mother, and children

Related Words

• blended families
• extended families
• people
• tribes
• races
• folks
• households
• kiths
• blood
• stocks
• clans
• houses
• kinsfolk
• lineages
• kins
• kindreds
• kinfolks
• descendants
• offspring
• broods
• seed
• issues
• lines
• progenies
• relatives
• kinsmen
• clansmen
• scions
• dynasties
• kinswomen

Dissimilar Words

• births
• origins
• extractions
• pedigrees
• descents
• ancestries

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of nuclear families

The Republican party has promised a return to the good ol’ days, with strong nuclear families at the crux and a fight against the declining birth rate. — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026

Multiple titles also chart for Millennials and the Gen Z the evolution of bedrock relations beyond those of nuclear families. — John Hopewell, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026

Built up in the 1870s as a resort for nuclear families, Fire Island was destroyed by a hurricane in the 1930s, which quickly chased away its upper-class vacationers. — Air Mail, 23 May 2026

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

Cats have a one-in-seven chance of harboring the disease, a likelihood that increases to one-in-four for pig and rhesus macaque nuclear families. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025