Nuclear family: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	elementary family • two-parent family

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Portrait painting by Pierre Prud'hon showing Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck seated with a book, his wife Catharina Nahuys standing beside him, and their two children in a park, with the boy holding a goat and the girl holding a wreath of flowers.

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conjugal family Extended family Family Kul Joint family Adoption Cousin Parent

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