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==Origin==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merriam_Webster_Dictionary Merriam-Webster] dates the term back to 1947, whilst the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] has a [[reference]] to the term from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925 1925]; thus it is relatively new, although ''nuclear family'' [[structures]] themselves date back thousands of years. The term nuclear is used in its general [[meaning]] referring to a central [[entity]] or "[[nucleus]]" around which others collect.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947 1947]
==Definition==
*1: a [[family]] group that consists only of [[father]], [[mother]], and [[children]]
==Description==
In its most common usage, the term '''nuclear family''' refers to a household consisting of a [[father]], a [[mother]] and their [[children]] all in one [[Home|household]] dwelling. George Murdock, an early and influential observer of [[families]], describes the term in this way:
<blockquote>The [[family]] is a social [[group]] characterized by common residence, [[economic]] [[cooperation]] and [[reproduction]]. It contains adults of both [[Gender|sexes]], at least two of whom maintain a socially approved [[sexual]] [[relationship]], and one or more children, own or adopted, of the sexually cohabiting adults.</blockquote>
Many [[individuals]] are part of two nuclear families in their lives: the [[family]] of [[origin]] in which they are offspring, and the family of [[procreation]] in which they are a [[parent]].
The nuclear family or elementary family is a term used to define a [[family]] group consisting of a pair of adults and their children. This is in [[contrast]] to a polygamous family, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-parent single-parent family], and to the larger [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_family extended family]. Nuclear families typically center on a [[married]] couple, but not always; the nuclear family may have any number of [[children]]. There are differences in [[definition]] among [[observers]]; some definitions allow only [[biological]] [[children]] that are full-blood siblings, while others allow for a stepparent and any mix of dependent children including stepchildren and [[adopted]] children.
[[Family]] [[structures]] of a single [[married]] couple and their children were present in Western Europe and New England in the 17th century, influenced by [[church]] and [[theocratic]] [[governments]]. With the emergence of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-industrialization proto-industrialization] and early [[capitalism]], the nuclear family became a financially viable social unit. The term nuclear family first appeared in the early twentieth century. Alternative [[definitions]] have evolved to include family units headed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_parenting same-sex parents], and perhaps additional adult relatives who take on a cohabiting parental role; in this later case it also receives the name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugal_family conjugal family].
The [[concept]] that a narrowly defined nuclear family is central to [[stability]] in modern [[society]] has been promoted by [[modern]] social [[conservatives]] in the United States, and has been [[challenged]] as historically and sociologically inadequate to describe the [[complexity]] of actual family relations.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_family]
[[Category: Sociology]]
==Origin==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merriam_Webster_Dictionary Merriam-Webster] dates the term back to 1947, whilst the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] has a [[reference]] to the term from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925 1925]; thus it is relatively new, although ''nuclear family'' [[structures]] themselves date back thousands of years. The term nuclear is used in its general [[meaning]] referring to a central [[entity]] or "[[nucleus]]" around which others collect.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947 1947]
==Definition==
*1: a [[family]] group that consists only of [[father]], [[mother]], and [[children]]
==Description==
In its most common usage, the term '''nuclear family''' refers to a household consisting of a [[father]], a [[mother]] and their [[children]] all in one [[Home|household]] dwelling. George Murdock, an early and influential observer of [[families]], describes the term in this way:
<blockquote>The [[family]] is a social [[group]] characterized by common residence, [[economic]] [[cooperation]] and [[reproduction]]. It contains adults of both [[Gender|sexes]], at least two of whom maintain a socially approved [[sexual]] [[relationship]], and one or more children, own or adopted, of the sexually cohabiting adults.</blockquote>
Many [[individuals]] are part of two nuclear families in their lives: the [[family]] of [[origin]] in which they are offspring, and the family of [[procreation]] in which they are a [[parent]].
The nuclear family or elementary family is a term used to define a [[family]] group consisting of a pair of adults and their children. This is in [[contrast]] to a polygamous family, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-parent single-parent family], and to the larger [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_family extended family]. Nuclear families typically center on a [[married]] couple, but not always; the nuclear family may have any number of [[children]]. There are differences in [[definition]] among [[observers]]; some definitions allow only [[biological]] [[children]] that are full-blood siblings, while others allow for a stepparent and any mix of dependent children including stepchildren and [[adopted]] children.
[[Family]] [[structures]] of a single [[married]] couple and their children were present in Western Europe and New England in the 17th century, influenced by [[church]] and [[theocratic]] [[governments]]. With the emergence of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-industrialization proto-industrialization] and early [[capitalism]], the nuclear family became a financially viable social unit. The term nuclear family first appeared in the early twentieth century. Alternative [[definitions]] have evolved to include family units headed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_parenting same-sex parents], and perhaps additional adult relatives who take on a cohabiting parental role; in this later case it also receives the name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugal_family conjugal family].
The [[concept]] that a narrowly defined nuclear family is central to [[stability]] in modern [[society]] has been promoted by [[modern]] social [[conservatives]] in the United States, and has been [[challenged]] as historically and sociologically inadequate to describe the [[complexity]] of actual family relations.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_family]
[[Category: Sociology]]
