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nuclear family definition

☆ nuclear family

a basic social unit consisting of parents and their dependent children living in one household

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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