nuclear family

family

generation

independence

Boomer

Gen X

is the impossible experiment of asking an immediate family to live all by itself in a box with no relatives and no support.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. - Margaret Mead

is a foregone conclusion in the west whereas, in so many other cultures, families are embedded in much larger extended households in which work, household maintenance, and child rearing could be shared among kin.

Why do American families have to live in nuclear households when in so many other cultures families were embedded in much larger extended households in which work, household maintenance, and child rearing could be shared among kin' (scheper-hughes).

is, for feminism, along with marriage, that whose complete destruction is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal.

The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism. Kate Millett

nuclear family, n.All

nuclear family