"Nuclear family" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... provision for the other members of his family and to secure good positions for them too; and not only the members of his own family but those of allied families and of families related to it by marriage. In contrast the Toba had a patriarchal nuclear family system; as nomad warriors with no fixed abode, they were unable to form extended family groups. Among them the individual was much more independent; each one tried to do his best for himself. No Toba ...
— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard |
