NOUN
- a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner
How To Use nuclear family In A Sentence
- Where you usually have a nuclear family living together and nobody else, we will often have not just a nuclear family but cousins, aunts, great-aunts, uncles. The extended family lives together, tightly knit.
- Cooking, however, often is done within the constituent nuclear family units.
- Not everybody nowadays lives in the conventional nuclear family.
- They were emphatic about the mismatch between their non-nuclear family structures and the conditions they are required to meet under family assistance payment arrangements.
- Most of the debate was really about an alleged universality of the nuclear family of married biological parents and their legitimate children.
- The relationship of the nuclear family to wider social forms has troubled the historian for a long time.
- New family structures have benefits and difficulties much as older patterns of the extended or nuclear family had. Know Your Own Mind
- That sort of responsibility has to come from inside a person, and with no incentive to add to what is already a perfect system i.e, live in maid and sexbot, why would men *add* to the resources of the nuclear family? Men’s Rights Myth: Typical Child Support Payments Are Insanely High
- Although at present, there is no evidence of anyone receiving a blowjob from a portly intern, so Chris Matthews is having a hard time understanding how any Republican elected official could be implicated and Jonah Goldberg's mother hasn't yet figured out how to peddle books on the subject and land a member of her nuclear family an unearned writing gig. 01/06/2006
- They might have a party with their nuclear family, one with their extended family, one with their friends and one at school. Times, Sunday Times