nuclear family

English

Etymology

From nuclear +‎ family.

Noun

nuclear family (plural nuclear families)

1. A family unit consisting of two parents (traditionally a mother and a father) and their children.
   • 2020 March, David Brooks, “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The initial result of that fragmentation, the nuclear family, didn’t seem so bad. But then, because the nuclear family is so brittle, the fragmentation continued. In many sectors of society, nuclear families fragmented into single-parent families, single-parent families into chaotic families or no families.

Coordinate terms

• extended family
• immediate family
• joint family
• stem family

Translations

a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children

• Afrikaans: gesin (af)
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 核心家庭 (zh) (héxīn jiātíng)

• Danish: kernefamilie c
• Dutch: kerngezin (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: ydinperhe (fi)
• French: famille nucléaire (fr) f
• German: Kernfamilie (de) f
• Hindi: परिवार (hi) f (parivār), एकल परिवार (ekal parivār)
• Icelandic: kjarnafjölskylda (is) f
• Indonesian: keluarga inti (id), keluarga batih (id)
• Japanese: 核家族 (ja)
• Korean: 핵가족 (ko) (haekgajok)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjernefamilie m

  Nynorsk: kjernefamilie m

• Polish: rodzina nuklearna (pl) f
• Portuguese: família nuclear f
• Romanian: familie nucleară f
• Russian: нуклеа́рная семья́ f (nukleárnaja semʹjá)
• Spanish: familia nuclear f
• Swedish: kärnfamilj (sv) c
• Turkish: çekirdek aile (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: خاندان f
• Vietnamese: gia đình hạt nhân (vi)
• Welsh: teulu cnewyllol (cy) m

Further reading

• nuclear family on Wikipedia.Wikipedia