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Unit 25: Future of Family: Emerging Alternatives-Nuclear Family, Marxist and Feminist Approaches

In this way, due to the reason of corollary thinking of Angels was criticised because according Notes
to some people this is the symbol of this matter that Angels himself was against the any type
of family relation and according to him in socialist societies the institution of family should be
uprooted. Anthropologist Cathelin Gakh says that the picture presented by Angels may not
be very far from truth. She makes the basis of her view to the popularity of the sexual life of
Chimpanzees living in the free sexual relation, the near relative of human beings. She believes
that this system can be the life system of humans.
This criticism of Angel that she has even in indirect way has taken side of the abolishing of fam-
ily, seems improper. Angels had expressed clearly that the importance of emotional and sexual
factors in family relation comes infront when the pollution of money wealth does not affect the
relations. He argues that Sarvahara establishes and breaks the marriage relations on the basis
of the mutual attraction and repulsion and in Burjua societies the married couple get tied in the
knot of marriage in the situation when the male and female has no love for each other in their
mind and they have sexual relation with other available people.
On the basis of that book the common conclusion which comes infront is that family manage-
ment based on permanent relation and monogamy which is male dominated and which has got
the legislative direction and support and developed in one of the way of to maintain the conti-
nuity of the private ownership of the property. In the words of the Angels, “This is based on the
superiority of male and its clear provision is to produce the children of indisputable paternity.
This type of paternity is important because these children have to become the obvious successor
of the property of their father”.
The full scheme of evolution of family by Angel is more descriptive from this also. But in mod-
ern anthropologist researches it is found that many of these descriptions are wrong. For ex-
ample, in many hunters and nomadic tribes monogamy and nuclear family is popular. This is
said that the man had spent 99.9 % share of its entity in hunting and nomadic life groups. Thus
Angels has presented the form of nuclear family based on monogamy that may the output of the
assumption only. This is also explained that although nuclear family and monogamy is present
in small societies they organize a part of a elaborated kinship group. When different people
marry mutually then they start bearing different responsibilities towards the relatives of their
life-mates. In this way a big descriptive family takes birth.

Feminist Approach

One interesting fact is that in capitalist society the Marxist analysis of family is evolved in the
last of the decade of 1960 mainly in form of a part of feminist movement. On the basis of the
Marxist hypothesis, the feminist writers have made their hit point to man dominated society.
This argument was given that the male dominated family is helpful in fulfilling the aims of
the capitalist societies in more than one view. In this view first and foremost matter is that in
this form of the family labour foundational genes of capitalism are produced in very cheap
form. The production is cheap because capitalists have to give nothing for the birth and nur-
turing of child. Further for giving birth and nurturing child the wife doesn’t gets anything.
This is cleared that the quantum of labour provided by the women doing household works is
abundant and are very beneficial to the owners of the production industries. The wife serves
the husband who is a labour in the capitalist arrangement. Thus, a capitalist gets services of
two persons one the wages or salary of one person. It is felt that actually this is a type of an
exploitation. The thirdly matter is that under the popular family arrangement, the husband is
committed to support his wife and children. Thus when there is reasonable cause to revolt his
capitalist employer and abstain from selling his labour to him, these reasons come in his way.
Probably therefore feminist writer Margret Benston says, “In form of a economic unit, the
nuclear family is an important power to keep stable the capitalist society”. Further, one other
feminist writer Fen Ansaly puts infront the view of Talkot Parsons that family shows the ten-

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