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Relying only on our standard social unit, the nuclear family, can feel isolating for many people.
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Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 17 Dec. 2024
The historian Katherine Otis has studied expert advice given to grandparents and found that, in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, at the apex of the nuclear family, seniors were chided for meddling.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Yet Marling is transfixed not by the individualism of the nuclear family, but the patterns that transcend generations.
—Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
Many of those parents have grown cynical about politicians of all stripes, but now have hope that Trump will pursue policies that edify, rather than undermine, the nuclear family.
—Chad Williams, National Review, 30 Nov. 2024
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Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 17 Dec. 2024
The historian Katherine Otis has studied expert advice given to grandparents and found that, in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, at the apex of the nuclear family, seniors were chided for meddling.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Yet Marling is transfixed not by the individualism of the nuclear family, but the patterns that transcend generations.
—Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
Many of those parents have grown cynical about politicians of all stripes, but now have hope that Trump will pursue policies that edify, rather than undermine, the nuclear family.
—Chad Williams, National Review, 30 Nov. 2024
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“Nuclear family.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuclear%20family. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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