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Unit 29: Family and Marriage in India: Forces of Change, Family in the Context of Care of the Child and the Aged
Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University

Unit 29: Family and Marriage in India: Forces of Notes

Change, Family in the Context of Care
of the Child and the Aged

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

29.1 Factors Responsible for Changing or Disintegrating Joint Family
29.2 Recent Tedencies and Changes in Joint Family
29.3 Future of Joint Family

29.4 Summary
29.5 Keywords
29.6 Review Questions
29.7 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, students will be able to:
• Understand the factors responsible for bringing a change in modern family.
• Tell the security and development of children and aged in an urban modern family.

Introduction

The transfer of production from family to investing societies was an important thing for a mod-
ern family. The activities related to production, inclucated the seeds of unity in a rural agri-
culture based family. The seen in an urban family is totally different. As far as the economic
activities are concerned, a family, to a large extent, limits itself to consider the income of those
members who work out.
After industrialisation, many important changes have been viewed, which effect the family.
Prominent amongst them is the new position of women. It is true both of the Western and the
Indian society.

The Rise of Modern Urban life
Unlike a residence, a family is not a stationary or non-living things. It is an amalgamation of a
number of activities, which focus on child bearing and nurturing. A group of people does not
make a family. A family consists of those people who stay together in a home. Thus, family
life could be viewed as a social behaviour. It is natural that the family life gets affected by the
behaviour of men, women and children, with regard to the other social relations. Yet, it is a fact
that if a family limits itself to “the strict sphere of self satisfaction, it becomes impossible for it to

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