nuclear family

"Feminism has really hurt the nuclear family and has hurt women," she said, adding that she has been heavily criticised for talking openly about her beliefs.

“I want them to see how Easy has developed and changed over the years. And that family, even though Easy’s doesn’t look like the nuclear family, is what America has always been about.”

The 20th century saw the rise of the nuclear family, and most homes were bought and occupied by parents and their children.

The ongoing rise of single-person households, too, may chip away at a form of housing built to hold four-person nuclear families.

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.