核家族
かくかぞく
nuclear family
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Examples
核家族が増えた。
かくかぞくがふえた。
Nuclear families have increased.
戦後、日本では核家族化が急速に進んだ。
せんご、にほんではかくかぞくかがきゅうそくにすすんだ。
After the war, the shift to nuclear families advanced rapidly in Japan.
核家族では育児の負担が母親に集中しやすい。
かくかぞくではいくじのふたんがははおやにしゅうちゅうしやすい。
In a nuclear family the burden of childcare tends to fall on the mother.
Common patterns
- 核家族が増える
- nuclear families increase
- 核家族化
- nuclearisation of the family
- 核家族世帯
- nuclear-family household
Memory tip
核 here is 'nucleus, core' — parents plus children only — nothing to do with nuclear weapons, even though 核 alone in the news usually does mean those. Context decides.
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