# family values

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. Political and social beliefs that hold the traditional nuclear family to be the essential ethical and moral unit of society.
2. Right-wing values like patriarchy and opposition to gay marriage, family planning and legal abortion, and to feminism and women working outside the home.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/family-values