Sentences with phrase «american nuclear family»

King's morbid fascination for the weakness behind the facade of domestic bliss in the American nuclear family is practically a constant throughout his oeuvre.

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The plot centered on a seemingly nice, middle - class Muslim - American family who were secretly scheming to launch a nuclear attack on the United States.

Daniel and Elizabeth's experience (and that of couples like them) makes an important truth very clear: The current practice of middle - class American marriage, with its atomized nuclear families, sparse and carefully spaced offspring, and long empty - nesting period before grandchildren arrive, is a recipe for dissatisfaction.

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

This is almost twice the radioactivity released at Chernobyl, according to Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters, by Kate Brown, a history professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

The nuclear family is not only as American as apple pie but also the cultural norm in most societies across the world.

December 22, 2004 Smoking plays a dominant role in the development of the disease, but genetic factors appear to establish increased susceptibility that goes beyond the nuclear family In a paper published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association...

Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Master and Commander), who also directed Ford to success a year before in the Best Picture - nominated Witness, directs this Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Affliction) adaptation of the Paul Theroux novel, casting Ford as Allie Fox, a disgruntled American inventor who gets so pissed off at the loss of what he believes is a dying America, he decides to pack up his bags and family, taking them to the rain forests of South America to live a life away from civilization, and the threat of nuclear annihilation he believes is imminent.

The American Dream is based on keeping the nuclear family intact and creating uninterrupted growth of property.

Sure, soon after there was a nuclear device detonating in a major American city in Clear & Present Danger and Arnie as a vengeful fireman killing those responsible for the death of his family in a terrorist attack in the unfortunately named Collateral Damage.

A sickly twist on nuclear morals and unadulterated, thoroughly punitive obsession, National Lampoon's Vacation etched a dark twist on small town American dreams, couching the woes of extended family, the thirst for adventure and the troubles of enclosed spaces in with themes of adultery, abuse, abandonment and totally warped family values; with a corporate theme park ironically standing in as a last bastion of joy.

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Weinberger, born in Kingston, Jamaica, the daughter of an Afro - Carribean mother and a White American father, moved to the US and grew up at a time when legal interracial marriage, and the multiracial nuclear family, was still relatively novel (interracial marriage became legal in the United States in 1967, Weinberger was born in 1973).

This series of eight, large - scale paintings by Robert Beckmann reveals the potential effects of a nuclear detonation on an American - built, single - family home.

Adult children generally are expected to live independently when they are financially able to do so, and the American norm is for nuclear families to live in separate households, often at great distances from one another (Conger, 1981).

[jounal] Wang, L. / 2001 / The relationship between marital satisfaction, marital stability nuclear family triangulation, and childhood depression / The American Journal of Family Therapy 29 (4): 337family triangulation, and childhood depression / The American Journal of Family Therapy 29 (4): 337Family Therapy 29 (4): 337 ~ 347