What is "nuclear families"

Usage examples of "nuclear families".

In the core, he knew, Heechee lived in conununes, not nuclear families.

Robbed of adult heroes or role models other than their own parents, children of streamlined, nuclear families are increasingly flung into the arms of the only other people available to them--other children.

Terry's memory told him that nuclear families were the rule on Tanith.

In particular, it is linked to the fact that men and women remain associated in nuclear families after copulation, and that human children (unlike young apes) remain unable to obtain their own food for many years after weaning.

Elsewhere our kind exists as individuals or nuclear families, all too susceptible to going wild.

Nowadays, the immigrants you got from Latin America and the Caribbean preferred remaining citizens of their native lands, shuttling back and forth like diplomats between countries, supporting nuclear families here and extended families in their homelands.

Most of the men he'd be meeting with had wives and children, nice little nuclear families back in the mother country.

You may have heard of hearth fairies or brownies that used to care for nuclear families in sleepy Welsh and Irish villages.

Generally, homosexuals have used reproductive technologies to create their own nuclear families, not new constructions, Lesbian couples have used artificial insemination to bear children, but this is quite old tech.

They had no villages, no tribes, not even any real nuclear families.