What UK Law Policies Promotes the “Traditional Nuclear Family”?
A nuclear family is a family group consisting of only a father and mother and their children, who share living quarters. This can be contrasted with an extended family. Nuclear families can be of any size, as long as the family can support itself and there are only children and two parents. Nuclear families meet their individual members’ basic needs because available resources are divided among only a few individuals or the family would be known as an extended family. In China, the most populous nation in the world, the nuclear family has become the most common family arrangement. In the more urban parts of India, the second most populous nation, the number of nuclear families is overtaking other forms of family arrangements, although unpopular among Hindu orthodoxy who advocate a form of extended family structure called the joint family. In the United States, the third most populous nation, 70% of children live in traditional two-parent families.
