FAMILY

JOINT FAMILY

Definition:
A joint family is a group of people who generally live under one roof, who eat food cooked at one hearth, who hold property in common and who participate in common worship and are related

CHARACTERISTICS OF A JOINT FAMILY

• Large size: consist of parents and children grandchildren and another near relative along with their woman it is a group of with several basic families
• Joint property: The head of the family is like a trustee who manages the property of the family for the material and spiritual welfare of the family members. The total earnings of all the family members are pooled together.

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• Common religion: The members of the joint family believes in the same religion and worship the same gods they performed jointly their religious duties
• Common residence: The members of joint families usually live under the same roof they also live in separate houses in close distance to one another they eat the same food and very same type of clothes.

A family when lives together with all family members up to 2nd generation like grand parents, parents, uncle, aunts and their children is called a joint family . The importance of joint family is understood by the Indians since time immemorial.

But while young people are going advanced with their lifestyles, they stay away from living jointly with their parents and grandparents. These people usually miss a lot of fun,care, elder guidance from time to time which causes a lot of problems in the future like loneliness, frustrations. In the joint family , all members are equal.

DISADVANTAGES

• Privacy compromised
• Financial responsibility
• Interference in Parenting
• Woes of a common kitchen

ADVANTAGES

• Always find someone for company at home
• Share the bundle of expense
• Share house hold chores
• Loneliness is avoided

NUCLEAR

Today we have a generation of people who after having lived in a joint family system have taken the plan to break out and start a nuclear family. The generation that broke out of the old joint family system did so when personal thinking began to gain predominance in the society. The other factor that creates nuclear families is profession. This forced men and women to move out of their family for better job opportunities to the major commercial cities and towns. In this case, often the parents who remained emotionally attached to the place where they spent most of their life preferred to continue staying in their family home and accepted with some sadness their children starting out new life away from them.

A nuclear Family consists of only parents and kids.
A nuclear family, elementary family or conjugal family is a family group consisting of two parents and their children (one or more).

ADVANTAGES

• Development in personality
• Better condition of women
• Individual responsibility
• Problem free unit

DISADVANTAGES

• Economic disadvantage
• Insecurity of children
• Agency to develop bad qualities of Inmates
• Loneliness

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