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    • 4. S1 E4 Jun 18, 2013
      • Pauline and Zoe come across three armed men who claim they don't want trouble.
    • 3. S1 E3 Jun 11, 2013
      • John and Lynn come to in a highly equipped facility and find themselves being administered tests.
    • 2. S1 E2 Jun 4, 2013
      • The Man at first seems polite, but when John and Lynn refuse to give him Pauline, he gets violent.
  2. A nuclear family (also known as an elementary family, atomic family, cereal packet family [1] or conjugal family) is a family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence. It is in contrast to a single-parent family, a larger extended family, or a family with more than two parents.

  3. Apr 10, 2024 · nuclear family, in sociology and anthropology, a group of people who are united by ties of partnership and parenthood and consisting of a pair of adults and their socially recognized children. Typically, but not always, the adults in a nuclear family are married. Although such couples are most often a man and a woman, the definition of the ...

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. A nuclear family is a family unit consisting of two parents (mother and father) and their biological or adopted children living together in a single household. This structure is distinct from extended family systems, which include additional relatives such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

  5. Feb 15, 2024 · The term “nuclear family” is commonly used in the United States, where it was first coined by the sociologist Talcott Parsons in 1955. It has been suggested that the nuclear family is a universal human social grouping. Nuclear family is not universal, the structure of the family changes as the needs of the society changes.

  6. Origin of 'Nuclear Family'. Nuclear family dates to the 1920s, when the academic fields of anthropology and sociology were both still young. The Oxford English Dictionary cites Bronisław Malinowski, considered a founder of social anthropology, as the coiner of the term. At the time nuclear family was coined, the word nuclear inhabited contexts ...

  7. The term nuclear family was developed in the western world to distinguish the family group consisting of parents and their children, from what is known as an extended family. According to Merriam-Webster, the term dates back to 1947 and is therefore relatively new, although nuclear family structures themselves are not. [1]

  8. Feb 21, 2020 · February 21, 2020. The nuclear family is disintegrating—or so Americans might conclude from what they watch and read. The quintessential nuclear family consists of a married couple raising their ...

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