Wait, is that sarcasm? I'm American, I can't do subtlety so well.
Didn't the term "nuclear family" arise simply out of...well, being that? The more traditional immediate-versus-extended terminology implies that the immediate family is after all a nucleus of sorts, and that's how I'd always taken it.
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Date: 2009-03-08 11:48 am (UTC)Didn't the term "nuclear family" arise simply out of...well, being that? The more traditional immediate-versus-extended terminology implies that the immediate family is after all a nucleus of sorts, and that's how I'd always taken it.