Observe any five families in your neighbourhood and draw your conclusions,advantages disadvantages of living in a joint/ nuclear family
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advantages -
Always find someone for company at home. Loneliness can be avoided.
Share the burden of expenses - rent, bills, groceries with other earning members in the family.
Share the responsibilities.
Share the household chores among all the members.
Different generations contribute best of their worlds in running of the family efficiently.
More birthdays, more celebrations in the year.
Ability to adjust.
Tolerance threshold is higher.
More members in the family , there is higher diversity in ideas and solutions.
Usually with many members we see there are more rules in the house, which help in living a disciplined life.
Disadvantages -
Privacy and space issues.
Difference of opinions is higher as there are more opinions with more number of members in the family.
Amount of workload is more - quantity of cooking, washing clothes etc..
If application of rules are not fairly applied then rise in conflicts can be expected.
1. Development of Personality
Merits – Nuclear family plays a vital role in the overall expansion of character of individuals. Kids are more intimate to the parents and can frankly discuss their problems.
Demerits – As it is an independent unit, it is free from the social control of the senior members of family. So the children may lead an undisciplined life and develop all sorts of bad qualities like stealing, lying. They become more unsocial as they do not get chance to mix with extended family members.
2. Autonomy
Merits – This is perhaps the chief advantage of living in nuclear families.People can take their decisions freely. New couples can lead their lives on their own terms. They can innovate their lives by planning getaways, sleeping and eating habits, can make new customs and rules in their family which is not really unlike when they live with their parents.
Demerits–Parents are a great source of learning because they have more experience of life. They understand the complications that life can bring and offer valuable piece of wisdom that is beneficial to live a full life. Living in nuclear family means no access to prized a dvices.
3. Finance Management:
Merits – Nuclear families have sufficient financial stability to provide luxuries and opportunities to their children. They can pursue extra-curricular activities like dance, sports, music or any other types of programs. With these activities they develop themselves socially & academically.
Demerits– Children split up the property as was held by the parents and live with their respective families. These leads to a lot of economic loss as the land price gets low. The yield is lesser than the remuneration one needs to pay laborers to maintain the land.
5. Individual Responsibilities
Merits – In nuclear family there is no shifting and sharing of responsibility. The parents have to take accountability of their children by themselves and work hard to take care of their family.
Demerits – There is no help at hand as there are no other members to help out with cooking and cleaning and managing daily household chores. People have to micromanage everything.
6. Peace and harmony
Merits – In Nuclear families there are no usually conflicts and inmates enjoy a peaceful environment at home. There are no clashes with the in-laws and the extended family members. People are emotionally secure and no one has superiority or inferiority complex.
Demerits –There is less instant support during bad phase at the time of criticality. There is no emotional support if there is an accident or a monetary crisis. Having a family close by always helps.
8. Culture and traditions
Merits– People become more receptive and accepting towards other cultures and traditions. They shun the obstinate ideology of holding on to stringent practices and traditions and rather simplify them. They re-create their customs and make them more accepting to the family because at times not all the customs can be followed.
Demerits – Somewhere down the line, heritage and culture are lost as it is passed on to the future generations. Chances are that they get totally obsolete in the process.With the modernization taking on the customs and traditions, it is apparent that the future generations will either have no knowledge of customs and traditions or they will be confused since they accept other cultures also.
9. Inter-dependence and space
Merits – Being interdependent on each other brings a lot of affection for each other. Everyone can embrace their individuality and there is lot of space to understand each other and help each other grow.
Demerits –People at times begin to feel lonely when they get free. Housewives may feel that they have no one to talk to since the husband and kids are out for work and school/job respectively.
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