nuclear family
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There’s a real “misery loves company” component to the pressure to shoehorn everyone into their narrow vision of the nuclear family.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
Once was when I was 18 years old, and it was definitely mental illness: I want the nuclear family that I didn’t have, and I want it now.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
The nuclear family is destroyed; the crime family is falling apart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
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
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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