Introduction To Family Life
The group of individual related either by blood, marriage or adoption, living under the same roof and dining in the same kitchen and creating and practicing a common subculture is called family. This note provide us the information about family life, origin of family and its importance.
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The group of individual related either by blood, marriage or adoption, living under the same roof and dining in the same kitchen and creating and practicing a common subculture is called family. This note provide us the information about family life, origin of family and its importance.
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- Food, shelter, clothes, health, education and security along with entertainment are basic needs of family.
- Small family, delayed marriage, first conception at proper age, child spacing, quality education, health and sanitation, nutritious food, and saving habits makes family life happy.
- The group of individual related either by blood, marriage or adoption, living under the same roof and dining in the same kitchen and creating and practicing a common subculture is called family.
- The family members provide love, affection, care, kindness, spirit to one another.
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Introduction To Family Life
Human being is a social creature. As he cannot survive in loneliness, he forms a group, in which the members have the similar kinds of feelings. Only the family provides the opportunity to live a pleasant life. It is the family where we live and learn to live as a social creature. Family life is a very board term related to the issues of introduction, importance, types and essential characteristics of a family.
Life must be happy and significant. So, to make the life happy and prosperous, the size of the family must be small. Besides this, efforts are to be made to increase the sources of income for family welfare. To increase the sources of income, one should be involved in income generating activities and also reduce the number of children. People should follow the concept of small family life.
Introduction to Family
The group of individual related either by blood, marriage or adoption, living under the same roof and dining in the same kitchen and creating and practicing a common subculture is called family. This definition implies that family members related by any of these three relation .i. e. relationship, martial and adoption. The relationship between father or mother and son is that of relationship, the relationship between husband and wife is that of marriage. Adoption of child of other people as one's own is quite a latest practice. The third type of practice exist more in developed countries. Whatever may be the relationship, love is the underlying element of any family. It is a family in which the responsibility and positional hierarchy play a significant role.
The family comprises parents, sons and daughter in law, grand son and daughters living under one roof and dining in one kitchen. The group of members related with blood and marriage is a family. The family also an inherited small group. The person of different sex and age live in an organized way of keeping warm relations with on one another in the family. We are born in family, grow in the family and live together in the family.
Importance of Family
The family members provide love, affection, care, kindness, spirit to one another. Available resources and means are used by family members in the family. There is a close relationship among them. The chief function of a family is to create the spirit of cooperation, to live daily life in friendly atmosphere, to share pleasure and pain to solve various problems jointly. A family has a very important role in keeping social values. It has great importance in a country like Nepal where social values, beliefs and tradition are seriously observed.
Family is the cohort of intimately organized individuals who are creating and practicing common subculture. It is defined whole that combines the people of various forms of statue: age, sex, occupational status and so on.
Types of family
At present, we can study family by dividing into two types on the basis of its structure.
Nuclear family:
A family composed of husband and wife, and their children is called nuclear family. The system of nuclear family is very popular in present context.
- There is less possibility of quarrel due to less family member.
- It is easy to take care of all family members.
- There is equal love and affection among all family members.
- There is freedom of making decision.
Extended Family:
A family composed of grand-parents, parents, brothers and their wives, daughter-in-law, grand-son, grand-daughter and so on is called extended family.
The strength of extended family are as follows:
- There is economic, social and emotional security.
- Well supervision of children.
- Easy to run business and farming.
- The problem of adolescence can easily be solved.
Size of family
Every family should have the objective of the happiness, development and good wishes to make their members happy and prosperous. It needs a balance between the size and the resources of income of the family. The source of income is to be managed according to the size of the family. If the size of the family is large with limited sources of income, there will arise the atmosphere of dispute. Hence, the size of the family is to be determined according to the sources of income.
Lesson
Family Life Education
Subject
Enviroment Population and Health
Grade
Grade 9
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