Neetu Singh*,Suman Audichay** *PhD Research Scholar, **Professor
College of Home Science
Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur
Abstract
The study was undertaken to assess the association between the perception and implications of family well being on self, family and society by wives of nuclear and joint families belonging to expanding stage of family life cycle in Udaipur city. The study was based upon the sample of 200 respondents (100 wives of joint families and 100 wives from nuclear families) …show more content…
The emotional support structure is weakening and external entities (school, religious institutions) are taking part of socializing roles earlier played by families. An urban middle class family has undergone drastic change in response to development in terms of industrialization, women’s education and workforce participation. Industrialization, education and urbanization, leading to accelerated rate of migration, late marriages, change in fertility rate, rising divorce rates, marriage conflicts, cohabitation before marriage, increasing numbers of single-parent families and single person households, diversification of gainful economic activities and individual-friendly property laws, have had consequential impact in terms of drastic reduction in the size of …show more content…
Family structure and economic well-being are correlated. Economic well-being can be quantified in various ways, such as through household income, employment status, net worth, poverty, and the receipt of welfare. There is an intimate relationship between income and wealth and our sexual culture. They rise or fall together; there is a significant connection between our sexual culture and our national economic strengths and weaknesses (Fagan et al, 2012). Frey and Stutzer (2002) argue that “additional material goods and services initially provide extra pleasure, but it is usually only transitory. Higher happiness with material things wears off. Satisfaction depends on change and disappears with continued