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Unit 25: Future of Family: Emerging Alternatives-Nuclear Family, Marxist and Feminist Approaches
Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University

Unit 25: Future of Family: Emerging Notes

Alternatives-Nuclear Family,
Marxist and Feminist Approaches

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

25.1 Future of Family
25.2 Is Nuclear Family a Result of Industrialization?
25.3 Is Nuclear Family a Universal Form of Family Relation?

25.4 Family: A Marxist and Feminist Approach
25.5 Summary
25.6 Keywords
25.7 Review Questions
25.8 Further Readings

Objectives
After studying this unit, students will be able to:
• Predict the future of a family.
• Dominance of women in capitalist society.
• Know about the characteristics and future of unitary or nuclear family.

Introduction
For last few years, comprehensive changes have taken place in technical and economical field in
the human society which affected the social interests and values. Due to the effect of the increas-
ing power of earning income and consumerist culture, the emotional attachment among the
parents and children has declined. This changing structure has also made the role of parents am-
biguous. In modern period, the size of a family has shrunken and become small which is termed
as ‘nuclear’ or ‘unitary’ family.

25.1 Future of Family
George Peter Mardock has presented a model of 280 societies which includes even hunters and
nomadic to comprehensive industrialist societies and claimed that a family is present in every
society in any of the form and it is cosmopolitan. In this way, besides the Talkos Parsons family

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