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There was a photograph of her older sister’s happy nuclear family, which had partly inspired Romy’s seemingly idyllic husband-and-two-kids existence at the movie’s outset, and a snapshot that Reijn had taken of a group of Wall Street interns in ill-fitting suits and backpacks.
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Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Relying only on our standard social unit, the nuclear family, can feel isolating for many people.
—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
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Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Relying only on our standard social unit, the nuclear family, can feel isolating for many people.
—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
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“Nuclear family.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuclear%20family. Accessed 10 Jan. 2025.
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