Minnesota Bakery Anounces "Nuclear Famliy" Month - During Pride Month

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2. Ah yes, such a foundational and primeval concept from nature and God that it was coined... around the 1920s

Here's your history bit for the day.

Nuclear family dates to the 1920s, when the academic fields of anthropology and sociology were both still young. The Oxford English Dictionary cites Bronisław Malinowski, considered a founder of social anthropology, as the coiner of the term.

At the time nuclear family was coined, the word nuclear inhabited contexts other than those most familiar to us now. Its use was broad and tied, as it still is, closely to uses of its parent word, nucleus, which had been a member of the language for 250 years. (In other words, people were putting "nuclear membrane" in papers before "nuclear family" )

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/nuclear-family-history-origin