▲ | weft 15 hours ago | |||||||
It's not even the most stable or ubiquitous family arrangement in the modern day. | ||||||||
▲ | toasterlovin 10 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
It is. I think you’re bringing a lot of baggage to the term. In common usage (verified on my phone dictionary), it simply means a couple and their dependent children. It doesn’t require that they live separately from extended family. It doesn’t require that all the children have the same biological parents. It doesn’t even require that the parents are different sexes. Or that the parents are married and live together. It’s just a more specific term to remove the “extended” sense of the more general “family.” | ||||||||
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