0 a family consisting of two parents and their children, but not including aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. --
Yet in a strictly biological sense, a nuclear family is created whenever two members of a species mate.
Instead, the caring relationship tends to be based more on the nuclear family.
This ideological construction of a nuclear family is most obviously promoted where the 'work' children are doing is concerned.
Coming from a small nuclear family associated with a higher likelihood of support giving.
This is realised if one imagines a large and a small nuclear family in both of which only one child provides support.
Potential probands were excluded if they had been adopted, or if their nuclear family was not available for study.
While her parents had been maintaining an ' abbreviated nuclear family ' in good times, at a point of crisis generational bonds were revived but sustained separately.
As for the analysed sample, the structure of the nuclear family was an important indicator of the level of support.
