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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 nuclear family consists of a mother, father, and the children. The two-parent nuclear family has become less prevalent, and pre-American and European family forms have become more common. [2] Beginning in the 1970s in the United States, the structure of the "traditional" nuclear American family began to change.
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]
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 1992, 47% of African-American families had a nuclear family in comparison to 54% of all US nuclear families. [35] The African-American simple nuclear family structure has been defined as a married couple with children. [32] This is the traditional norm for the composition of African-American families. [36]
A man has been called "selfish" after deciding to attend his brother's wedding without his wife and children. He took to Reddit’s “Am I the A-----” forum on Sunday, Jan. 12 to detail his ...
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In the social sciences and U.S. political discourse, the conventional term traditional family describes the nuclear family—a child-rearing environment composed of a leading father, a homemaking mother, and their nominally biological children. A family deviating from this model is considered a nontraditional family.