urbanisation can also lead to disintegration of joint family system due to high cost of living
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Urbanisation causes migration from rural areas due to which joint families in villages disintegrated.
Increased population pressure in towns and cities created housing problems which resulted in nuclear families in small houses.
Many social changes such as women empowerment, western culture influences, inter caste marriages etc led to joint family disintegration in urban areas.
Cost of living is the prominent issue that faced by a joint family when they enters into an urban settlement.
The head of the family should have to consider proper housing and environment for the whole family which have the members of every age group.
The family should have to face the consequences of increasing needs and their costs. If the salary of the head of the family tends to be not enough then the consequences will go even worse.
Urban environment is completely different from the rural one. So the higher age group of the family have to face the difficulties in the new environment.
Disintegrating the joint family is the only final decision after facing all the consequences in the urban environment.