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Nuclear families

LC control no.sh2009003435
Topical headingNuclear families
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Found inWork cat.: 2009403761: Esteinou, R. La familia nuclear en México, 2008.
Encyc. of family life, c1999 (nuclear family; composed of a man, a woman, and their socially-recognized children, who may be natural or adopted offspring)
International encyc. of marriage and family, c2003 (nuclear families; the term nuclear family can be defined simply as a wife/mother, a husband/father, and their children)
Jary, D. The HarperCollins dict. of sociology, c1991: p. 166 (the nuclear family comprises merely parents (or parent) and dependent children)
Johnson, A.G. The Blackwell dict. of sociology, 2000: p. 188 (the nuclear family consists of parents and their natural or adopted children living in the same household in the absence of other relatives)