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Meanings
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nuclear family
A household consisting of parents and their children, as opposed to an extended family. Common in sociological and everyday contexts.
Nuclear families are increasing in modern Japan.
As the trend toward nuclear families advances, opportunities to live with grandparents decrease.
Usage patterns
- 核家族化が進むfor society to shift increasingly toward nuclear families
Along with urbanization, the shift toward nuclear families has been progressing.
- 核家族で暮らすto live as a nuclear family
They live as a nuclear family.
- 核家族が増えるfor the number of nuclear families to increase
In recent years, the number of nuclear families has been increasing.