Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different family types

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Nuclear family-A couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic social unit.

Advantages of a nuclear family are:

  • A Stable Environment: Children raised in a family with the same parents during their growing years have a higher likelihood of having stability in their relationship and emotional bonding.
  • Behavioural Stability: With both the father and the mother, children get a better sense of what is acceptable and unacceptable.
  • A Sense of Consistency: When children grow up in a nuclear family, they get a sense consistency, especially when it also includes closeness with other members of the family such as grandparents.
  • Learning Skills: In a nuclear family, children usually get far more extensive training in life skills. For instance, mothers usually teach their children relationship skills, like emotional response skills and how to have smooth relations with others, while fathers, in general, teach their children handiwork skills and sports skills, like fixing things around the house or hitting a baseball, as well as how to deal with the world outside.
  • Sharing Responsibility: With two parents sharing the responsibility of raising the children, it enables one parent to take time to pursue other interests or get a rest while the other parent plays or works with the children.
  • Physical and Emotional Support: Nuclear families usually have more physical and emotional resources with which they can reinforce the whole. Through observing their parents and by following the examples set by them, children learn how to help in the building of the family.
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Disadvantages of a nuclear family are:

  • No care – If the parents are working and children suffered from any small or big disease, then one needs to deal with it alone as they don’t have elders and other family members to take care of.
  • Problems to children – If your child is small and needs special care, then you will always think that if you were in a joint family then this condition would never arise as you have other family members who can take care of the child and in the mean time, you can do your work.
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There are some interesting points raised here regarding the advantages and disadvantages of the nuclear & reconstituted family. Be careful not to make assumptions though (key to good work in H&SC). Recon. families may not necessarily mean a significant increase in the number of children in society. What is key is the idea of 2 different families coming together. More examples are needed to illustrate points. Careful proof reading is necessary to eliminate grammatical errors.