traditional family
Old-fashioned home structure
A traditional family typically refers to a household with two married parents of opposite sexes and their biological children, often with the father as breadwinner and mother as homemaker.
The term carries ideological weight, frequently invoked in political and religious contexts to contrast with other family structures: Politicians campaigned on traditional family values.
What counts as "traditional" varies by culture and era—the nuclear family idealized in mid-20th-century America differs from extended-family arrangements common throughout human history.
- nuclearOf atomic energy
- householdDomestic unit of residents
- parentsMother and father
- marriageFormal union between partners
- valuesPrinciples held worthwhile
heritage · conservative · old fashioned · roots · generations · homestead · white picket fence · upbringing · mother · father · stay at home mom · children · siblings · dinner table · Sunday dinner · Sunday · church · ancestors
- patriarchymale dominance, male supremacy, pater familias, patria potestas, male privilege
- Reproduction Policynatalism, pronatalism, population control, birth rate, fertility rate
traditional familysingle-parent family
One parent raising offspring
blended family · same-sex parents · chosen family · childless couple · cohabiting couple
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