InternationalFamily Day

15 May

INTERNATIONAL

DAY OF THE FAMILIES

• May 15 is celebrated as the International Day of the Family. This day highlights the importance of families.

• It aims at fostering equality, bringing about a fuller sharing of domestic responsibilities and employment opportunities.

• Family constitutes the basic unit of society.

What is a family?

What is a family?A family is "a group characterized by

common residence, economiccooperation and reproduction. Itincludes adults of both sexes, at leasttwo of whom maintain a sociallyapproved sexual relationship, and oneor more of their children of their own oradopted by the sexually cohabitingadults."

The Family as a Functional Unit

The Family as a Functional

Unit• The biological, emotional and economic needs

are the foundation of a family.

• Every association of people; it be a state, a

nation, or a tribe, has its own distinctive

culture, its modes of living and thought, which

are developed as a response to the peculiar

circumstances of the environment, natural and

ideological.

• Family is the agency through which the

impressionable rising generation is made

familiar with such traditions.

The Family as a Functional

Unit• It teaches the individual what situations to

anticipate,

how to behave and what behaviour to expect, by giving one the gifts of language and dress which integrate within one’s cultural ethos.

• It facilitates adjustment to people and groups outside the family circle.

• Family plays an important role in transmission of the cultural traditions from one generation to another.

• It acts as an educative unit and a socio-cultural agency.

Distinctive Features of the Family

Distinctive Features of the

Family •Universality

•Emotional basis

•Educative role

•Limited size

•Nuclear position

•Sense of responsibility among members

•Social regulations

•Persistence and change

Effect of Modernization on Family

Effect of Modernization on

Family•In the simple and peasant societies, family was the unit of production as well as a primary unit of society. •In the industrial society, the family has lost the place of being the unit of production and has been replaced by individual as the primary unit of society who works as a wage-earner or professional.

Global Trends Emerging in the Family

Global Trends Emerging in the

Family Some of the general trends in family today, with theprogress of industrialization, urbanization, andmodernization, are towards greater degree of:

• Emphasis on individualism and independence.

• Greater differentiation and specialized functioning of social institutions.

• Life in an urban setting.

• Birth control and family planning.

• Social mobility.

• Marital disruption and divorce.

• Neglect and improper care for the elderly.

• Formal education for children.

• Governmental influence on family activities.

Institution of Family in India

Institution of Family in India• Indian family, which is predominantly joint or extended,

has remained remarkably stable despite some marked and drastic social, political, economic and religious changes over the last thirty years.

• Family has retained its primarily joint or extended characteristics.

• Families on the Indian fringe are undergoing a change.

• The main factors of change are modern education, development programmes and urbanization.

• The direction of change is from the hold of collectivity (tribe, clan and family) to increasing individuality.

Woman in Indian Family

Woman in Indian Family

Woman in Indian

Family• Women are the arbiters of social change. They play an important role in teaching the human entrants to this world the first lessons of life and making them accept values which are helpful later in shaping their personality, attitude and behaviour.

• Women set the pattern of the family. If women’s reproductive health needs are met through good quality services, they will themselves become the best supporters of the family planning programmes.

A Small Family

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