nuclear family en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From nuclear + family.
Meanings
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The traditional western family unit, consisting of two parents (traditionally a mother and a father) and their children.
The initial result of that fragmentation, the nuclear family, didn’t seem so bad. But then, because the nuclear family is so brittle, the fragmentation continued. In many sectors of society, nuclear families fragmented into single-parent families, single-parent families into chaotic families or no families.
2020 March, David Brooks, “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2020:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| nuclear families | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Coordinates
joint family · extended family · immediate family · stem family
Translations (27)
ja 核家族 (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · pl rodzina nuklearna (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · es familia nuclear (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · sv kärnfamilj (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · ko 핵가족 (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · ru нуклеа́рная семья́ (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · id keluarga inti (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · nl kerngezin (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · mh baam̧le (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · af gesin (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · ro familie nucleară (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · nb kjernefamilie (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · cy teulu cnewyllol (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · da kernefamilie (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · fr famille nucléaire (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · tr çekirdek aile (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · hi एकल परिवार (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · de Kernfamilie (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · cmn 核心家庭 (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · vi gia đình hạt nhân (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · id keluarga batih (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · ur خاندان (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · hi परिवार (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · pt família nuclear (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · fi ydinperhe (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · is kjarnafjölskylda (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children) · nn kjernefamilie (a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children)