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Unit 22: Development Cycle of Family in India

22.3 Western and Indian Family Notes
One of the characteristics of contemporary western society is, the importance of primary groups
(along with family) is reducing and the secondary group is replacing it. Many functions of the
family is getting done by many professional institution which are run by the states.

In such institutions the nursery, kinder gartens, school, trade unions, club, ho-
tels, and restaurants are important. Free sex, changing values of idealism and
results of counters emptive techniques supported the family disintegration.

The family and marriage related sanction is getting fiddled with the decline of religion. So the
disintegration of family (marital separation/divorce) is being easy.
The changing point of view of female status and role in the family, add the reasons for family
disintegration. Individualism is the basis for all contemporary cultures.
Personal happiness can be possible on the cost of full family. “Divorce is a safety volve” on the
point of view of a man, which removes mental tensions and safeguard personal happiness.
Some contemporary socialists believes that social and personal neurosis are the main reason
of family disintegration. The emotional basis of a family represents prime inspiration of love,
co-operation and security and these act as a support system to a men, when he is a teacher or a
preacher. Such teacher save their students from unnecessary tensions and worries, along with it,
these emotional bases of a family, creates strong secured human structure. A family is the only
option for secured and emotional sphere for a person.
Disintegration of a family results in development of individualism and depression of social
obligations. Selfishness is dominating social and co-operative benefits.
In dictatorship societies, the family is not in danger because of individualism but from states it-
self which deprive a family’s function of giving education and other strokes to their children? In
comparison to China, where preceding of Confusius and Liostasay are at apex from centuries, “
The Family” is not an ideal group in the other societies of the world except India or China, India
is only some percent behind it. Presently, Chinease are against those preachings, the news is
that they are doing movements against it, because they think them as barriers in bringing social-
economical structural changes to the society.
In Indian Tribes, only the “one form of family is not prevail in. One marriage, multiple wives
marriage, fatherly domine, fatherly lineage, families exist in far east. The Khashi tribes lives dif-
ferent family system in comparison to their neighbour.
Same type of difference you can find in Nayyar tribes. Toda, Kadar, Kash represent the Parent
lineage: most of the tribes of middle India shows male dominance.
Hindu society represents similar family system. The family is a holy institution for the Hindus,
which is accepted by ancient social traditions religion and supported by multiple history, lies
mythological details. Thousands and millions of people believes in popularity of the Ramayana,
Ram as ideal and obedient son, Sita’s comparison and love for her husband, Lakshman’s love
and respect for his brother and even Hanuman a monkeylike-man, his ardent services for his
master the Ram are known to every one. These Hindus can not deny or minimize the contri-
bution of these lies, in the structure and protection of Hindu society. Hindu family come in
the category of “Extended family”, which is called a joint family. ‘The Father is supreme here.
Family lineage carries father legacy. The status of woman had been glorified in the epics and
Purans a lot, but reality is different, they are not having any status, not their condition is very
happy or good. Females live like a working machine and lives under their husbands dominance,
especially in the lower middle class families of towns. Female have dominance and more liberty

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