May 15 - Intl Day of FamiliesFamilies are falling apart, moods are changing

    21-May-2022
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Priyanka Saurabh
Contd from previous issue
On the positive side, Indian society may see a slowdown in population growth and feminization of the workforce as an effect of the decline in the family as an institution. However, there is a need to understand the structural changes from joint family to family, in some cases, it cannot be termed as the decline of the family system. Where the family system changes from joint family to nuclear family for some positive change. However, Indian society also inhabits the unique feature of family fusion and fragmentation in which some members of the family life as a family even though they live separately in different places.
The family is a very fluid social institution and is in the process of constant change. Modernity is witnessing the emergence of a large proportion of same-sex couples (LGBT relationships), cohabitation or live-in relationships, single-parent homes, living alone or divorced with their children. Such families are not required to function as traditional kinship groups and may not prove to be good institutions for socialization. In the materialistic age, the competition for each other's comforts has scorched the relations of the mind.
The high walls of houses going from kutcha to pucca have made mutual conversation vanish. There is an orgy of discord in every courtyard being stone. Mutual differences have created deep differences. In the absence of good teachings from elders, they have started taking decisions and keeping small relationships at home. As a result, today the family members are bent on cutting their loved ones. On one hand, neighbors are licking pudding in happiness, then they have to suffer alone. We have to think and understand that if we want to live a meaningful life, then we have to understand the importance of family and leave mutual disputes and stand with the family, only then we will be able to survive and this society will be worth living.
The writer is a  Research Scholar in Political Science, Poet, freelance journalist and columnist,