nuclear family

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• Social scientists such as Eric Klinenberg and Bella DePaulo show that for an increasing number of us, the “traditional” nuclear family model of living, with breadwinner husband, dependent wife and two or three children, is no longer relevant.

• My diagnosis wreaked havoc on each member of my nuclear family, harming them, hurting them, for many years.

• This phrase became a defining characteristic of second wave feminism at a time when women and others challenged the institutions of marriage, the nuclear family and its values and state control of women’s reproductive rights.

• Inside the home, the concept of the nuclear family was shaken by rising divorce rates.

• The solution was to convert the domestic security of the nation into the domestic security of the nuclear family.

• Everywhere I go, ‘Hey Cartman, you must like Family Guy, right?’

• The third suspect, an 18-year-old named Hamyd Mourad, who turned himself in, is part of the same extended family.

• Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.

• But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.

• A spokesman for Lewisham council said last year that it would be forced to act if the family returned to Britain.

• And that was that if he and his wife were to ever live together again and be happy, the family were to be kept out of it.

• “This house must have been the hotel of some distinguished family, Baron; it is nobly proportioned,” said David Arden.