nuclear family
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Friedkin’s movie shifted people’s perceptions about fear and played with longstanding ideas about the nuclear family and religious ideology, themes that were starting to be contested and debated as America moved further from ’50s-era sterility.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
But the breakdown of the nuclear family may very well be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Scott recalled growing up in a working-class family in Birmingham, "in a world of soap operas and things" where TV characters were mostly in heterosexual relationships or "settled down" in a nuclear family.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
This contrasts with the Western nuclear family model, where learning is often centered around parents or teachers in a formalized school setting.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024
Behind him huddled his nuclear family, a circle of two smaller females and about eighteen bucktoothed guinea pig children.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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