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The institution of family, which is the foundation of an individual, is diversifying with time, with there now being double-income homes with no kids (called DINKs), same-sex or LGBT families, and digital families.
The centre for social work at TISS, in association with the Global Consortium for International Family Studies (GCIFS), held an international conference titled ‘Changing World-Changing Families: Diversity and Synergy’ from January 4 to 6.
Speaking about the conference’s theme, TISS professor Devi Prasad said through the lectures and discussion he found that there is great variation in the types of families that exist today. “We are addressing multiple facets of diverse families. We have seen that marriage as an institution is losing its popularity in Scandinavian and western countries. The presence of technology is impacting families on a universal level and the social pressures women face for child-free marriages in India and the West are completely different. There are single-parent families, cohabiting and non-marital fatface of miles, and queer and same-sex families, but the Indian context hasn’t been studied much,” he added.
Prasad also said family studies have been very conventional — in the 1960s, the joint family system was said to be a norm, but 70% of families then were nuclear too. “Even back then, we never had just joint patriarchal family structures. We had diverse families with the matrilineal structure in the Northeast. The third gender was not even accounted for. An upper-caste Brahminical family is considered the national family in sociological studies from then,” he said.