Sentences with phrase «like nuclear families»

Stepfamilies are not like nuclear families, and stepparents are not replacement parents.

Furthermore, anyone who has studied ancient Near Eastern culture knows that the familial structure we see represented in scripture was nothing like the nuclear family epitomized by the Cleavers, but would rather have included multiple generations and relatives living together in clans, with women working long hours «outside of the home» in the fields, tending sheep, gathering food, trading goods, etc..

She, Jackson, Dan and Clare spend a lot of time together in what she calls their «modern family» — it certainly doesn't look like a nuclear family, an image we still want to cling to even though those families barely exist nowadays.

Not exact matches

They found that whites were overly associated with categories like nostalgia (craftspeople and tradition), natural (wholesome foods, agriculture) and the stereotypical nuclear family.

Employees born in the 1960s formed their earliest memories during the time when cultural traumas like assassinations, protests, war, impeachment and riots shook the nuclear family.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

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.

Sociologists and anthropologists have spoken of the way in which the nuclear family — the small group of three or four persons — can be vicious because it may (not must) become centered on its own existence and, hence, entirely inward - looking — like a pond with no outlet.

The small family unit known as a nuclear family today is the typical family type of the modern era in Western cultures.1 During the last two hundred years, identity has been associated more with the family unit than with larger social units like a congregation.

As a celibate woman observing families from the outside, it often seems like folks are solely focused on their own nuclear families.

Since fewer of us in America are in traditional nuclear families, why wouldn't we want a president who reflects who we actually are — beyond just a man of color like President Obama or a woman like presidential - hopeful Hillary Clinton.

This family set up appears near enough nuclear on first appearances but it's true make up goes like this: Mummy, Daddy, child 1, child 2, Mummy's phone and Daddy's phone.

Nuclear talks might become possible with North Korea in the event Kim Jung - un died or was somehow succeeded by a Gorbachev - like successor who wants to come in from the cold, as it were, and does not have the current family legacy to live up to.

Abbreviations: ASC, apoptosis - associated speck - like protein containing a caspase - recruitment domain; ATM, adipose - tissue - resident macrophage; BAT, brown adipose tissue; CCR2, CC chemokine receptor 2; CHOP, C / EBP (CCAAT / enhancer - binding protein)- homologous protein; DHA, docosahexaenoic acid; EPA, eicosapentaenoic acid; ER, endoplasmic reticulum; GPCR, G - protein - coupled receptor; HIF, hypoxia - inducible factor; IFNγ, interferon γ; IKK, inhibitor of nuclear factor κB kinase; IL, interleukin; IRS - 1, insulin receptor substrate - 1; JNK, c - Jun N - terminal kinase; LDL, low - density lipoprotein; Ldlr, LDL receptor; LXR, liver X receptor; MCP - 1, monocyte chemoattractant protein 1; miRNA, microRNA; mTOR, mammalian target of rapamycin; NAFLD, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; NF - κB, nuclear factor κB; NLRP3, NLR (nucleotide - binding - domain - and leucine - rich - repeat - containing) family, pyrin - domain - containing 3; oxLDL, oxidized LDL; PKR, double - stranded RNA - dependent protein kinase; PPAR, peroxisome - proliferator - activated receptor; STAT6, signal transducer and activator of transcription 6; SVF, stromal vascular fraction; TLR, Toll - like receptor; TNFα, tumour necrosis factor α; UPR, unfolded protein response; WAT, white adipose tissue

Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, computer simulations and microscopy, the researchers showed how disease mutations and arginine methylation, a functional modification common to a large family of proteins with low - complexity domains, altered the formation of the liquid droplets and their conversion to solid - like states in disease.

Ginger joins CND (explaining to a family friend that these are the initials of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament), talks like a home counties Cassandra and declares herself a poet.

The other family, like dark doppelgängers (and foreigners to boot) quickly lay waste to the idyllic nuclear family, dispatching Dad and leaving Mom and the children to fend for themselves in the harsh world.

Like many early Spielberg flicks — E.T., Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind — Poltergeist has a natural feel for the tempos and politics of nuclear families and their suburban existence.

In Alien3, the game was truly on: Director David Fincher straight - up murdered Ripley's new nuclear family before powering the film's narrative towards a climactic conflagration depicting a Christ - like sacrifice and unalloyed abortion metaphor.

The new trailer still doesn't give us many details (just like the first teaser), but suggests that some kind of worldwide invasion causes the nuclear family to seek safety in the relative quiet of the woods.

by Walter Chaw Massively over-written, smug, baselessly self - assured, and world - weary in the way that people who watch a lot of «Sex and the City» and «Girls» are world - weary, Leslye Headlund's rank, unwatchable Sleeping with Other People is like that date that Death goes on «Family Guy» with the girl who tells Him you can't hug your kids with nuclear arms.

«These games teach essential survival techniques, like how to fight off any mutants, scavengers, or nuclear cults that might attack you and your family after you exit your secure fallout - proof vault,» Mattis said.

That seems like a bit of an arbitrarily small limitation — I'd like to pin my all of my best friends and nuclear family.

And if we continue to create policies catering to a traditional nuclear family structure when so few families look like that, we will continue to see the same results.

One way to think of the difference between blended and nuclear families is that blended families are like a crockpot meal, while nuclear families are like a quick skillet sauté.

Conflict immediately arises when parents expect their suddenly newly assembled family to operate like the traditional nuclear family.

They are part of larger social systems: Family systems, like «nuclear families» (two parents and their child or children), are part of larger extended families, which are part of communities, which are part of regional cultures, which are part of nations and world social systems.