Art Today Pt 2

with the world famous T-shirt design for 'Nuclear Family' [link]


"Merriam-Webster dates the term back to 1947, whilst the Oxford English Dictionary has a reference to the term from 1924; thus it is relatively new, although nuclear family structures themselves date back thousands of years.
The term "nuclear" is used in its general meaning referring to a central entity or "nucleus" around which others collect.
In its most common usage, the term "nuclear family" refers to a household consisting of a father, a mother and their children all in one household dwelling (siblings). George Murdock also describes the term in this way:

'The family is a social group characterized by common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction. It contains adults of both sexes, at least two of whom maintain a socially approved sexual relationship, and one or more children, own or adopted, of the sexually cohabiting adults.'

Some also use the term to describe single-parent households and families in which the parents are a cohabiting, unmarried couple."

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