Modern Families vs. Traditional Families

A few years back, concept of a family was different.
Family was consd parents raising

their children and all of them living together raising children and grandchildren together.
The aunts and uncles were part of families and were significant other. Three generations
were considered to be a single family who were living together; but now the concepts of
families have totally changed. Your significant others now days are only the parents or
your siblings.
Modern families Vs. Traditional Families
In traditional families, more is talked about bonds and staying together like family as a
single unit; but now days more is being focused on individuality; people like to think about
themselves first and then about significant others. Individuality has given rise to equality
and in case of families all family members must be equal together. This is a concept which
has been adopted by the modern families where each of the family members has say in
the family decisions and everything is based on equality.
Replacement of Jt Family by Single Family
There used to be families of very big size consisting Not only of parents and their children
but also the families of their brothers, grandparents and the widow daughters of the same
family used to live in one house. Now jt families have broken up and their place has been
taken over by single families consisting of parents and their children. Even the grown up
children after their marriage separate to establish their own families.
Modern Family no Longer a Social Unit
The trad family was regarded as a social unit, all the members of a family lived at one
and the same place bound together by a thread of the commonness of residential and
social conds. Now even the members of the same family live scattered at diff places and
do separate occupations.
Mod Family no longer an Eco Unit
Traditional family was self-sufficient in eco needs. All active members were emp in family
occupation. articles of consumption could be prep at home. There was no cause of
depending on outside agencies for the sake of eco gratification. mod family is no longer
a self-sufficient unit because most of the articles of daily need are now obtained from
market.
Abandonment of Non-Essential Funcs
The sphere of activities of trad family had been much larger than that of mod family. Which
has given up a great many funcs, performed by the trad family such as cooking, cleaning
and washing are also performed outside the household by specialized agencies. the
modern family is concerned with the doing of essential funcs
Change in the Posn of Women
Formerly, the women occupied a very low posn in the family with no rts nor any freedom.
They had to carry out the dictates of the male members. In mod family the woman if not
the devotee of man but an equal partner in life with equal rts. The husband now does not
dictate but only requests the wife to do tasks for him.
Eco Indep of Women
Prev, women were dependent on men for the fulfilment of all their needs Women could
own neither property nor could they hold any occupation. Marriage was a compulsory
bond for them, which they had to undertake for the fulfilment of eco needs. But now the
posn has changed altogether The percentage of women emp outside the home is cont
on the inc. she can now earn her own living. They are now property-owners as well as
wage earners and do not want to lag behind men in any way. This eco dependence has
largely affected the attitude of modern woman
Dec Con of Marriage Contract
Marriage is the basis of family. In a trad family the parents contracted the marriage. The
marriage ceremony was based on the principle of male dominance and female
obedience. In a mod family people is less subj to the parental con in the matter of mate
choice. The partners themselves do not settle the marriage and it can be undone at their
own will.
Decline of Religious Con
While the trad family was religious in outlook, the mod family is secular in attitude. The
religious rites of the trad family such as early prayer, yagya etc. are no longer performed
in mod family. Marriage also has become a civ contract rather than a religious sacrament.
It can be broken at an hour. The auth of religion over the conds of marriage and divorce
has markedly declined. Divorce is a freq occurrence. In trad family it was a rare
phenomenon.
Change in partnership patterns
Families in the past were happy to live together for all their lives; the early marriages
concept was common. People were not allowed to take bold decisions or to think about
themselves; but as edn came in and people became more aware about their rts; they
started to think about themselves; hence changing the partnership patterns.
Change in fertility and family planning
There has been a lot of change in the family planning and idea of no of children not only
because of the change in trads and culture but because growing population has become
a global concern. now days what parents commonly think is that to provide their children
and family with the best options like edn, stds of living and much more, it becomes
impossible in the case when you have large families; so smaller families are a way to get
all of this in today’s world.
Secondly, the trend of late marriages has also stepped in where now the people like to
focus on their career and edn before they plan to settle; late marriages lower the lvl of
fertility and leads to less no of children.
Change in children behavior
As the world move towards globalization; studying and settling abroad has become very
common. Children mov out for higher studies and get settled there later on in life which
has changed the family concept and pattern as compared to the past.
In the past, this idea was rarely seen. Parents home was the children’s home and they
stayed until they got married or even sometimes parents’ home was the family home
where all lived together; children moving out in their teenage has changed the family
pattern and the concept of family a lot.
Concl
family structure has changed a lot, due tech adv. the change has not destroyed its basic
position. Cox it was the result of changing needs and current circumstances. whether
mod or trad family is where an indl belongs to.
Whatever the type of family is and in whatever culture or society we reside; universally a
family is where the love and care takes start. the family is a place which you look forward
to after everything After a bad day; when everything comes to an end; you are always
looking towards family as a last place of comfort. Families are there to support you and
help you without being judgmental.

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Family was consd parents raising

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