Nuclear family Vs. Joint family: Parents Speak Up – III

By Jaishree Venkat: Having experienced both kinds of stays, I prefer nuclear family. I am not saying that we should not live in joint family but there are certain decisions which u would like to take for ur child, but elders may think that we are putting burden to the child but they don’t understand

Nuclear family Vs. Joint family: Parents Speak Up – II

By Preeti Jain: Joint family or a nuclear family, in India, the land of culture and unity, are well manifested in the structure of society, indeed in the smaller unit of a society i.e. family. I live in a joint family where my father in law is the head of the family. Love, care, and

Nuclear family Vs. Joint family: Parents Speak Up – I

By Ranjana Tripathi: Every child is different, and every child has a different upbringing. No two children can have the same types of growing up, even two siblings. So what does that mean? It shows it’s the environment, parent’s involvement and child’s own nature what matters in his behavior and growth. Environment should be stable,

Nuclear family vs Joint Family – A parent’s point of view

When I saw the topic of ‘the kind of family set up and its impact on raising a child’ being discussed, I couldn’t resist but to offer an opinion of my own, at first. But when I got down to actually writing about the subject, I simply couldn’t make up my mind as to which

Bringing up a child in a nuclear family versus a joint family

Ever wondered why Sooraj Barjatiya’s movies in the 90’s were the biggest rage in our country? Or why Ekta Kapoor set her Company’s cash register’s ringing all through the last decade?  There was a singular underlying theme to their success – THE BIG INDIAN JOINT FAMILY! The system of a joint family has existed in