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Posted: 16 years ago
#61

Originally posted by: pardeep1954

Hi Apux,

Your thoughts on the nuclear family are very much clear and encouraging, hopefully you must not have had love and affection of your grand parents, this must be the only reason that you are not condering them a part of the family, but what about those parents who have brought up their son and now a days are in old age which is generally called house of illness and stress, your thought directly means that once they got married their son to a girl, their all relations finished, after that they suffer any kind of problem that is their destiny, their son and daughter in law will reach there to just make all the last time ceremonies and collect the wealth they people have stored in their life time, is it right or justice with them? have any girl or person on behalf of the girl in question make it clear in advance means prior to the marriage, is there any fool who would like to make relashions with those people.



WHOA. Some interesting judgments you're making on me. I've had much love and affection from my grandparents, but my grandparents live far away from me. If I had the choice, I'd keep them forever with me. First of all, I think you didn't read my post properly. I said I consider a joint family is when there is more than one married couple from the same generation. I think it's wrong to put parents in an old age home. But I wasn't referring to parents. I was referring to people who are usually considered as "extended family". Like aunts, uncles, etc etc.

I'm unclear about your last statement? So you're saying that a person wouldn't want a marry someone who doesn't want to live in a joint family?
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Posted: 16 years ago
#62
Ok buddy
you yourself cleared my point that you were not refering parents in joint family, but by joint family you means where there more married couples lives together like uncle aunti etc. thanks a lot you also consider parents must be given due consideration, most of the girls disagrees now a days this even, many persons like us are facing such problems. In my last statement I mine point was same, nothing other, that if a girl before marriage clears or put a condition that she will not live parents of boy in consideration the scenerio for their marriage will be something differant, and it must be made clear in advance if such thoughts are the property of the girl in consideration, rather to have any mental tension etc. Anyway nice discussion and thanks for the same, have our blessings
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Posted: 16 years ago
#63
Usually a girl knows before the marriage wheather she is marrying into a joint family or wud B likely to set up a nuclear family. Both have their advantages & disadvantages. If a girl moves into a jt family she should B mentally prepared for the challenges to B faced . Lot of adjustments have to be made anyway once a person gets married & moves into another family. In case of nuclear family the number of adjustments 2 B made may B lesser but then one wud miss the care , security & affection of the other family members that one can get in a Jt family. It all depends on ones disposition I guess .
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Posted: 16 years ago
#64

Originally posted by: persistence

I would want time, and space with my husband. 😳

No nagging by family members! 🤢



Totally agree!! you cant do anything freely with an old saas watching😆
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Posted: 16 years ago
#65

Originally posted by: pardeep1954

what about those parents who have brought up their son and now a days are in old age which is generally called house of illness and stress, - directly means that once they got married their son to a girl, their all relations finished, after that they suffer any kind of problem that is their destiny, their son and daughter in law will reach there to just make all the last time ceremonies and collect the wealth they people have stored in their life time, is it right or justice with them? have any girl or person on behalf of the girl in question make it clear in advance means prior to the marriage, is there any fool who would like to make relashions with those people.

Some valid points raised here. 😊 With the increasing trend for nuclear families , ppl do get neglected in their old age. There R number of senior citizens leading a lonely life after their grown up kids have settled elsewhere with their new families. At times their condition is really bad especially after the other spouse has died. It also poses a security threat as they R easy targets for the anti social elements. One big advantage of Jt families was that the old & infirm had a support system to fall back on which is quickly dwindling with the growth of nuclear families.
It may B difficult to live in very large families consisting of 2 or more married siblings living together under one roof with their spouses & kids but a family consisting of one married couple with parents & children included should be ideal. I feel that children should give some consideration to their parents at least during their old age.
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Posted: 16 years ago
#66
Hi buddy, nice presentaion, actuaaly this is not a problem of one person or of two, but this is a problem of our society as a whole, which is forgetting the ethics of family and society just due to the industrialisation, modernisation and what we call it western culture. We are feeling problems, no doubt, but these problems are within us and not have come from outside, so it is we who have to trace its solution also. As it is generally said, if there is some problem then there is its solution also, need is to find it and impliment it. But sorry to say, while we are on the side of boy our thoughts are different as compared to the situation as would have been on the side of girl. Having two differant thought as per the situation directly indicates our double standards, hopefully this must be the reason also. We must think positively and have single thoughts for all the situations and there is a strong need to educate our upcoming girls, to brighten our future and save our ethics as a best solution. Only when our upcoming girls will have positive attitude, we can have better society.
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Posted: 16 years ago
#67

Originally posted by: pardeep1954

But sorry to say, while we are on the side of boy our thoughts are different as compared to the situation as would have been on the side of girl. Having two differant thought as per the situation directly indicates our double standards, hopefully this must be the reason also. We must think positively and have single thoughts for all the situations and there is a strong need to educate our upcoming girls, to brighten our future and save our ethics as a best solution. Only when our upcoming girls will have positive attitude, we can have better society.

I m not on the side of the boy , I m a girl myself 😆
Actually I was only thinking about the lonely parents who sacrifice a lot to bring up their children, weather it B money, time, emotions, or ones comforts etc. To forsake them completely during their old age is unfair. Yes one does have ones career & ambition in life but one should try & accomodate ones parents too in the scheme . One cant just neglect them ! When a girl marries into a family she ought to think how her parents wud feel if placed in a similar situation as her parents in law.
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Posted: 16 years ago
#68

Thanks Angie, I think you have gone the right approach ofa family and social status, see there are two situations in which parents and children live seperately, one is in which son and daughter in law are forced by circumstances of service but live near to the parents by heart, whereas other is where they live seperately due to the willingness of the daughter in law, who by creat such an atmotsphere. Undoubtedly grandchildren in that family lacks of the love and affection of their grand parents also. What I think in the present days there is great need to educate our new upcoming women who are responsible for production of future of tommorow, otherwise this will be they people who suffer a lot. Children learns what they see, when they have seen that their mother did not cared her parents in laws, they will certainly follow the same making it more advance. No doubt people at that time will blame them, whereas they will not be liable for that situation, to avoid the scene we must try hard to ractify the same.

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Posted: 16 years ago
#69
many people now has adopted the lifestyle of nuclear family instead of a joint family as nowadays the family had become smaller and smaller. nowadays people also think more as an individualists rather than collectivists and support more of individualism rather than collectivism. living in a joint family with more than 20 family members is gonna be suffocating and there's gonna be a little privacy between the family members. a lot of confrontations and quarrel between brothers and sisters-in-law especially if the women of the family were the fussy ones and like to stick their nose where they don't belong. like to talk about the negativity and other people's weaknesses and gossip about unimportant stuffs. usually women also worried about the wealth that they or their husbands have. they worried what if their husbands do not receive enough or equal inheritance comparing to their brothers, how could their husbands' brothers' wives have more money than they are and the list goes on and on. joint family might still be popular in india but it is not popular any longer in other parts of the countries especially in the western societies. even china who was famous for patrilineal joint family had incredible amounts of decrease in the numbers of patrilineal joint family. joint family is just too troublesome, it is better to have a nuclear family and good relationships between brothers and sisters rather than joint family where the family live with one another under one roof yet there are so many problems and confrontations with one another. this will make the relationships with one another sour and unhealthy.
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Posted: 16 years ago
#70
Adjusting in a family of 20 wud B quite a task ! Yes nuclear family does have the advantage of freedom of many of the problems cropping up in a jt family. But nuclear family should at least include the parents in laws ! U cant simply disown the very parents who brought up ur spouse. In fact i wud go further to say that a couple living in a nuclear set up without the grooms parents for what ever reason if the need arises it shud B ready to take care of the girls parents too esp in conditins of ill health or one parent dying & no one else to take care of the girls parents

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