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
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
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
In the close quarters of an American nuclear family, their mother's prodigious energy was becoming a real drain on their self-determination.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
