Sentences with phrase «nuclear families became»

Then we went through a phase instead of extended families, nuclear families became the «ideal», and parents demanded that other people NOT discipline their children.

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The idea that the family is declining refers to difficulties that families — traditional, nuclear or otherwise — are having in fulfilling their principal tasks, especially in raising children to become healthy and responsible adults.

During its plenary sessions the recent conference «Families 2000» came dangerously close to suggesting that in response to family disintegration, individualism and loneliness the church should become the new family surrogate, a warm and accepting replacement for the puny, broken and disappearing nuclear families whose remains are strewn across the social laFamilies 2000» came dangerously close to suggesting that in response to family disintegration, individualism and loneliness the church should become the new family surrogate, a warm and accepting replacement for the puny, broken and disappearing nuclear families whose remains are strewn across the social lafamilies whose remains are strewn across the social landscape.

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 further you move away from a healthy, white, married nuclear family with a male head of household, etc etc, the more «vulnerable» you become to using formula.

«In 2004, the Hollands became the first intact nuclear family in the United States to undergo body burden testing.

The nuclear family as traditionally defined is becoming more of a minority, and this petrifies the Tories.

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.

They are stranded at an abandoned nuclear test site popualted by some mutants whoe sole purpose is to kill and cause mayhem, and it becomes a family versus family fight ot the death for survival.

It abandons its subtlety en route to becoming a moralistic screed about the preservation of the nuclear family.

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).

With families becoming nuclear and both the partners contributing almost equally to the household income, it becomes imperative to ensure that both are insured to be financially stable in case of an untimely death of either of the partners.

However, as more and more people became urbanized, a tendency that increased after 1994, the nuclear family system started disintegrating.

See related articles: The Challenges of Re-Marrying and Becoming a Step - parent How Blended Families Differ from Nuclear Families Stepfamily Dynamics

«We very much envision ourselves as putting our arms around this little nuclear family and trying to walk it through the process so that it becomes a restructured family, rather than ground - up, or what we've called in the past a «broken family,» through litigation.»

Fact: «It has been consistently found that stepfamilies are not as close as nuclear families (Kennedy, 1985; Pill, 1990) and that stepparent - stepchild relationships are not as emotionally close as parent - child relationships (Ganong & Coleman, 1986; Hetherington & Chlingempeel, 1992, Hobart, 1989) Many clinicians and researchers assume that stepfamilies tend to become closer over time.