discuss the merits - demerits of joint family and nuclear family
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Nuclear family:
A nuclear family is a family group consisting of a father and mother and their children, who share living quarters. This can be contrasted with an extended family.
Nuclear families can have any number of children. Historical records indicate that it was not until the 17th and 18th centuries that the nuclear family became prevalent in Western Europe. With the emergence of post- industrialisation and early capitalism, the nuclear family became a financially viable social unit.
Joint Family
Joint Family is an extended family arrangement prevalent among Hindus of the Indian subcontinent, consisting of many generations living under the same roof.
All the male members are blood relatives and all the women are either mothers, wives, unmarried daughters, or widowed relatives, all bound by the common relationship. The joint family status being the result of birth, possession of joint cord that knits the members of the family together is not property but the relationship.