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nuclear families

nuclear families is the plural of nuclear family.

Meaning of nuclear family

Noun

nuclear family (plural nuclear families)

  1. 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...2020 March, David Brooks, “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2020

Questions about nuclear families

What is nuclear families the plural of?
Nuclear families is the plural of nuclear family.

Words near nuclear families in the dictionary

  1. nuclear envelopes
  2. nuclear explosion
  3. nuclear explosions
  4. nuclear fallout
  5. nuclear fallouts
  6. nuclear families
  7. nuclear family
  8. nuclear famine
  9. nuclear famines
  10. nuclear fission
  11. nuclear fissions

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