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An American nuclear family composed of the mother, father, and their children, c. 1955. A nuclear family (also known as an elementary family, atomic family or conjugal family) is a family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence.
The percentage of nuclear-family households is approximately half what it was at its peak in the middle of the 20th century. [6] The percentage of married-couple households with children under 18, but without other family members (such as grandparents), has declined to 23.5% of all households in 2000 from 25.6% in 1990, and from 45% in 1960.
Anthropologists classify most family organizations as matrifocal (a mother and her children), patrifocal (a father and his children), conjugal (a married couple with children, also called the nuclear family), avuncular (a man, his sister, and her children), or extended (in addition to parents, spouse and children, may include grandparents ...
In the Western world, familialism views the nuclear family of one father, one mother, and their child or children as the central and primary social unit of human ordering and the principal unit of a functioning society and civilization. [1] In Asia, aged parents living with the family is often viewed as traditional. [1]
As the basic unit for raising children, Anthropologists most generally classify family organization as matrifocal (a mother and her children); conjugal (a husband, his wife, and children; also called nuclear family); avuncular (a brother, his sister, and her children); or extended family in which parents and children co-reside with other ...
For this purpose, immediate family members are defined broadly to include a spouse, parents, in-laws, children, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, step-relatives, foster-children, and domestic ...
A lineal or direct descendant, in legal usage, is a blood relative in the direct line of descent – the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of a person.In a legal procedure sense, lineal descent refers to the acquisition of estate by inheritance by parent from grandparent and by child from parent, whereas collateral descent refers to the acquisition of estate or real property ...
The extended family also consists of spouses and siblings. This is in contrast to the two generational American nuclear family. [23] Some scholars have used the term "grand-family" to describe the close relationship between grandparents, children, and grandchildren in Mexican society.