Family is a financial intuition. It is a welfare organization. It
plays an important role in rearing children. It civilizes a man. Without living
in the family, man becomes furious. Family helps a man mentally. Every man
needs two types of food. Mental food is essential for mind satisfaction. Physical
food is needed for physical strength. We get mental refreshment from family.
The present age is marked not only by the importance of the family
as an economic and welfare institution. But the importance of family is increasing
as an arrangement for socializing children. Family is raising children. It is
giving the psychological support of adults.
There has been a wide disintegration of large kin groups. Intensification
of relationships within the nuclear family is worsening day by day. For the
necessity of life, most of the people are compelled to leave the family. They
have to go to city area. They have to earn for family. They can not communicate
with family in the village.
Moreover, the world is seeing an increasing association of women
with earning. With out of home activities they are becoming important in the
family. Women are not liking to confine themselves in the kitchen. They want to
establish their own identity. Now they want to do something outside of the
family. They intend to earn some money for the family.
In the pre-industrial feudal society, both husbands and wives worked
together in the fields. Outside the home they worked together. However, in the
industrial period, women were segregated from out-of-home productive work. The
hearth became the place for them: so cooking, cleaning washing, giving birth
and rearing children became their jobs. Men became the wage earners in the
family. All other outdoor activities became their responsibility.
In the post-war period, women started joining the workforce. They were
contributing to family income. Thus they started exercising an influence on
family affairs. Previously, authority in the family rested on the husband who
was the decision marker in all matters. But women, with their economic power,
started influencing decisions about important family matters.
In developed countries now, household work is shared by both
husbands and wives. Outdoor activities like shopping and taking children to
school, to doctors are done equally. Both husbands are wives are responsible
equally. Large extended families have given. They are still giving place to
small, nuclear families.
Even in developing countries, with the process of industrialization
extended families are breaking down. Kinship is declining. Single father family
is on the increase. The psychological problems of children in such families are
increasing in modern times.
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