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Nuclear family   /nˈukliər fˈæməli/   Listen
Nuclear family

noun
1.
A family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner.  Synonym: conjugal family.






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"Nuclear family" Quotes from Famous Books



... provision for the other members of his family and to secure good positions for them too; and not only the members of his own family but those of allied families and of families related to it by marriage. In contrast the Toba had a patriarchal nuclear family system; as nomad warriors with no fixed abode, they were unable to form extended family groups. Among them the individual was much more independent; each one tried to do his best for himself. No Toba ...
— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard



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