{"id":8599,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/nuclear_family\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:27","slug":"nuclear_family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/nuclear_family\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family comprising parents and children (i.e., not members of the extended family such as grandparents, aunts and uncles). &nbsp;Taken to be the dominant family form in late industrial cultures in which the unit of analysis is the household consisting of mother, father and children. &nbsp;In fact, since the 1970s, this type of family represents a minority of households, at least in Western countries. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"ecological_systems_theory\">Ecological systems theory<\/a>, <a href=\"parenting\">Parenting<\/a>, <a href=\"polygynous_households\">Polygynous households<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family comprising parents and children (i.e., not members of the extended family such as grandparents, aunts and uncles). &nbsp;Taken to be the dominant family form in late industrial cultures in which the unit of analysis is the household consisting of mother, father and children. &nbsp;In fact, since the 1970s, this type of family represents a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/nuclear_family\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nuclear family&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}