The PPT gives a brief about the family systems in India and about its advantages and disadvantages

1. Family Systems

2. Family System is a
group of people who
make up the same
household.

3. The Institution of Family
it refers to the group comprising parents and children.
It may also refer, in some places, to a Patri-or
matrilineage or to a group of cognates, that is, persons
descended from the same ancestor.
it may refer to a group of relatives and their dependents
forming one household.

4. PARENTHOOD SIBLINGSHIP
The basic unit of family social structure
contains the two primary links of kinship
A family usually comprises various
combinations and permutations of these
relationships.

5. In the Indian context,
contrast is between
nuclear and joint
family types.
A classification of families into joint and
nuclear types is usually based on the way in
which families are organized.

6. The most common
family structures
• Nuclear families
•Joint/ Extended
families
•Single-parent families
•Childless families
•Step-families
•Grandparent families

7. Nuclear family
• Nuclear families, also known
as elementary or traditional
families, consist of two
parents (usually married) and
their children.
• Nuclear families typically have
one or more children; they
may be biological or adopted,
but the main idea is that the
parents are raising their kids
together in the family home.
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8. Advantages
•Financially stable, both parents
usually work now
•Children raised in a stable
parenting situation
•Consistency
•Emphasis on health and
education
•Focus on communication
Disadvantages
•Exclusion of extended family can
lead to isolation and stress
•Can struggle with conflict
resolution
•Nuclear families can become too
child-focused, resulting in self-
centered children and families
neglecting other important things

9. Joint family
• Joint family, family in which members
of a unilineal descent group (a group in
which descent through either the
female or the male line is emphasized)
live together with their spouses and
offspring in one homestead and under
the authority of one of the members.
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10. Joint family
• The joint family is an extension of the nuclear family
(parents and dependent children), and it typically
grows when children of one sex do not leave their
parents’ home at marriage but bring their spouses to
live with them.
• Members of a joint family share all the tasks of food
gathering, trade, food preparation, and child rearing;
and at times the social organization is so cohesive
that the discrete nuclear families are barely visible in
the daily chores, with children addressing all the
adult women as “mother.”
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11. Advantages
•Shared roles and responsibilities.
•Good Support System
•Things like respect and care for
the elderly are imbibed naturally.
•Shared Finances & Resources
•Social Support
•Unity, bonding & togetherness.
Disadvantages
•Lack of Privacy.
•Financial issues/ disputes.
•In the family, nobody is allowed to
make decisions without first seeking
advice from the elders.
•Children’s personalities do not develop
because elders interfere with their
decision-making on a regular basis.