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A musical blast! Fun for the whole nuclear family! -- Michael Musto
The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness. -- Greg Wise
..the nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids; -- Robin Becker
I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept. -- Peter Eisenman
The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism. -- Kate Millett
I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother. -- Mary-Louise Parker
My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think. -- Tim Burton
The nuclear family must be destroyed... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. -- Linda Gordon
Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one. -- Chuck Eddy
I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed. -- Germaine Greer
The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model. -- Jasmine Guy
The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model -- Jasmine Guy
We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil. -- Andrea Dworkin
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews. -- Jane Smiley
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble. -- Jane Jacobs
Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun? -- Tom Hodgkinson
The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as a talking point to quash marriage-equality efforts. -- Jessica Valenti
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The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed. -- Kate Braverman
I am 54 years old and happily single. In addition to my nuclear family, I have a close circle of friends. Most of my friends are men. But my reputation is such that their female partners would never consider me a threat. -- Geraldine Lee Wei Ling
I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do. -- Gail Kelly
The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. ...Families have supported oppression by separating people into small, isolated units, unable to join together to fight for common interests. -- Linda Gordon
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. -- Margaret Mead
Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living. -- Elizabeth Janeway
Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make life easier: loads of adults for the adults to talk to and loads of kids for the kids to play with. -- Tom Hodgkinson
I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy. -- Felicia Day
We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families. -- David Elkind
One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family. -- Lee Myung-bak
Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them. -- Jane Smiley
If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family. -- Donna Reed
When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: 'Who is doing it?' Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad. -- Peter York
Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all. -- Christopher Lasch
The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world. -- Alvin Toffler

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