The Family Is A Social Institution
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Family is a social institution and has different definitions depending on who defines it.
Anthropologists say a culture's biological and marital kinship rules and patterns of reciprocal obligations define family. Structure-functionalists say the patterns of reciprocal obligations among people and ....
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.... our society, the more we depend on our family to provide emotional and intimate ambience to come back to. Our society has moved away from the traditional nuclear families towards extended families, blended families, childless marriages, single parents etc. The key word now is variety where multi-generation households are making a comeback.
My views on family and marriage have remained more or less the same since early childhood. Indian marriage as it stands today is a very old in ....
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