Gone are the days of large families. The society's single most important institution has shrunk in size so much so that it is now termed as "NUCLEAR".
Typically in the modern day, family consists of parents and one or at the most two children. Spiralling cost of living, housing problem and migration in search of better job prospects are tha main causes of growth of nuclear families.
The nuclear family has its demerits. The children brought up in isolation develop a sense of emotional insecurity. This is because now-a-days both the parents are working from morning to late evening and the children are brought up by house-maids or in creches. They dont have their grans parents as well as parents around them to give them the much needed emotional support and security. The children grow up as selfish and spoilt lot. Age old values like respect for seniors and aged, sense of sharing and living together are on their way out. Life is mechanical and from day one children grow up as robots. With the sole air to live up to their parents ever increasing expectations and finally earn money and recognisition where filial attachment and family ties fall flat.
While joint families still exise, their numbers are fats dwindling due to pressure of modern living. The need of the hour is to revive our value systems and traditions so that inspite of the nuclear set up in today's mechanical world the posterity develop a sense of understanding, caring, sensitiveness and grow up to become worthy citizens.
0 comments:
Post a Comment