Write an article about the Indian family .
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Family in India has remained a vital institution and a foremost primary group because it is the sheet-anchor of the patriarchal authority on the one hand, and a protector and defender of individual member’s (including woman) right to property, on the other.
Despite several wide-ranging changes in Indian society, because of synthesis between collectivism and individualism, the Hindu family continues to be joint, partly structurally and mainly functionally; and it has not disintegrated into individual families like the western countries.
Several studies on family have revealed that industrialisation, urbanisation, education and migration have not necessarily resulted into nuclearisation of family in India. A nuclear family in India is not simply a conjugal family
A real change in family must refer to changed pattern of kinship relations, obligations of members towards each other, individualisation, etc. In other words, not only change is seen in the composition or structure of family, but also its functions must change. The word ‘family’ is used in several different ways. A.M. Shah (1988) outlines at least four interrelated social situations of family life in India.
These are as follows:
1. The body of persons who live in one house or under one head, including parents, children, servants, etc.,
2. The group consisting of parents and their children whether living together ....
3. In wide sense, all those who are nearly related by blood and affinity, and
4. Those descended or claiming descent from a common ancestor – a house, kindred, lineage.
Generally, a family consists of a man, his wife and their children. This is known as an elementary family. Such a family could be an independent unit; it could also be a part of a joint or extended family, without necessarily residing together.
An elementary family includes members of two generations – that of ego and his offspring. Such a family may share property in common with other such units of the ego’s brothers’ families. According to Shah, an elementary family could be both a complete one and an incomplete one. A complete elementary family consists of husband, wife and their unmarried children. In an incomplete family some and not all persons are found...
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