: a family group that consists only of parents and children
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From the outside their lives are pictures of the perfect nuclear family, though in private the everyday tensions of contemporary life are all too familiar.—Alex Ritman, Variety, 24 Apr. 2025 Despite all the fronting, Saxon isn’t taken seriously by most of his nuclear family, which probably extends to a lot of people elsewhere in his life.—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 16 Mar. 2025 The Origins Of The Fear Of Infidelity The nuclear family structure relies heavily on monogamy to function.—Mark Travers, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025 People who got married were expected to eventually have children and raise a nuclear family that contributed to society.—Mark Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nuclear family
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