A nuclear family in which membership has remained constant, in the absence of divorce or other divisive factors.
‘As it turned out I ended up spending more quality time with my children than I think I would have had we remained an intact family.’
‘Only a handful of prospective studies have compared behavioral outcomes for children experiencing a divorce to those from intact families while controlling for pre-divorce levels of the behaviors.’
‘Second, stepfather families are more likely to divorce than intact families.’
‘They're very representative of the typical poor white intact family in my area.’
‘Isn't this what we hear from recreational drug users, who hold down jobs and have intact families?’
‘Parents in intact families should indeed be free to speak to their children - but not primarily because of their self-expression rights, or their children's interests in hearing the parents' views.’
‘Because older children were less likely to be living in an intact family, this would have, if anything, worked against the direction of the between-clinic difference that we obtained.’
‘An intact family consisting of well-educated, professional parents and socially responsible children, the show's fictional Huxtable family served as a model for more enlightened, racially-balanced programming in the 1990s.’
‘The data from this primarily white, upper-middle class, intact family sample are consistent with findings from samples having other demographic backgrounds.’
‘And the children themselves are in a state of post-divorce mourning over the loss of an intact family and full-time connection to a parent.’
‘And he found no significant difference in adjustment among children in shared custody and those living in intact family situations.’
‘The remarkable development here is that Caleb, deep down, obviously longs for an intact family, no matter how vile or vicious they appear to be.’
‘They wanted an intact family - one 5-year-old girl asked her mother to get two daddies in case one died.’
‘Ministries that have assumed a two-parent, intact family structure may not work well for people who did not grow up in such families.’
‘Society's only function would be to protect and support the child's family as its whole, intact family.’
‘Marie grew up in an intact family living in a large urban area of Western Canada.’
‘Irish pupils coming from a ‘broken family’ have a stronger association between their drug use and their connection to drug-using friends than do pupils coming from intact families, whereas the Bremen pupils show no such difference.’
‘Still, the difference between the two groups in their discrepancy scores may indicate that adolescents from nonintact families have more ‘unfinished business’ with their parents than do adolescents from intact families.’
‘It was estimated that in 1954, 80% of children in the United States lived with both biological parents whereas in 1997 only 50% had intact families.’
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