Question

List some of the reasons for changes in the families

Answer 1

Answer:

Changes in family are produced by many factors. The important among these are science and technology (industrialization), expansion of towns and cities (urbanization) and employment of men and women both within organizations outside family influence.

The material condition of industrial-capitalist society is the main cause of change in the family. Greater affluence, geographical and occupational mobility and increasing economic independence of women are the main contributing factors.

The global factor (technology and industrial change) is nearly encom­passing everything. Since it is everything, naturally it causes everything. Industrial change or industrialization includes not merely machines, but the science and engineering that produced them, the secular attitudes, anti-traditionalism, job placement on the basis of competence, an open-class system, high geographical mobility and urbanization. Industrial­ization causes the modern social and family patterns.

The industrial system has increased the demand of emotional satis­faction which is provided by conjugal bond only. Thus, this family system is attuned to serve the needs of industrialization.

Labour-saving devices have reduced the number of hours of the housewife. This has offered more freedom and has relieved them from many household tasks. The young ones need not now rely on family elders for job instructions, since the schools and the factory teach them new skills.

Relationships depend on feelings, not externally imposed moral frameworks. These values have led in the rise of divorce rates and as a consequence single-parent households in many developing and developed countries.