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The nuclear family or elementary family is a term used to define a family group consisting of a pair of adults and their children. This is in contrast to a polygamous family, single-parent family, and to the larger extended family. Nuclear families typically center on a married couple, but not always; the nuclear family may have any number of children. There are differences in definition among observers; some definitions allow only biological children that are full-blood siblings, while others allow for a stepparent and any mix of dependent children including stepchildren and adopted children.
Families structures of a single married couple and their children were present in Western Europe and New England in the 17th century, influenced by church and theocratic governments. With the emergence of proto-industrialization and early capitalism, the nuclear family became a financially viable social unit. The term nuclear family appeared in the early twentieth century, with the term nuclear itself appearing in the 1840s.[citation needed] Alternative definitions have evolved to include family units headed by same-sex parents, and perhaps additional adult relatives who take on a cohabiting parental role; in this later case it also receives the name of conjugal family.
Alone
In the world is a merry-go-around
Where do the free? in this place get down?
Switched to a bastard home
I just want to latch and get a grip
Chorus:
Right now these lonely faces
The other nuclear families
They left you
Were not that complicated
But another - problem
To you
And - can all go to hell
That spell
Ba-baby, baby, your protection, oh yeah
Fall/fold old-new concept that never went away
The ride in the world is a merry-go-around
Where do the free in this place get down?
Sweet Jesus, Jesus, Bloody Mary, oh yeah