scholarly journals Digu Puja: A ritual to revitalize the family unity among the Newars

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
Tina Manandhar
Keyword(s):  
Family System ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Kathmandu Valley ◽  
Joint Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Unity

Digu puja is a ritual of worshipping lineage god among the Newars of Kathmandu valley. With the brief discussion of the puja rituals this paper gives a detailed account of the family system in Nepal starting from ancient period. Following the developments in the field of education and politics how the joint family system was disintegrated and how the concept of nuclear family emerged in Nepal will also be discussed. And finally, how other festivals along with Digu Puja are helping to create a binding link amongst the separated family members will be analyzed.

scholarly journals Digu Puja: A ritual to revitalize the family unity among the Newars

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
Tina Manandhar
Keyword(s):  
Family System ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Kathmandu Valley ◽  
Joint Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Unity

Digu puja is a ritual of worshipping lineage god among the Newars of Kathmandu valley. With the brief discussion of the puja rituals this paper gives a detailed account of the family system in Nepal starting from ancient period. Following the developments in the field of education and politics how the joint family system was disintegrated and how the concept of nuclear family emerged in Nepal will also be discussed. And finally, how other festivals along with Digu Puja are helping to create a binding link amongst the separated family members will be analyzed.

scholarly journals Change in Family Structure in the Modern Times

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Himani Bhasin
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Family System ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Joint Family ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
System A ◽  
The Family

In India, the land of culture and unity, culture and unity are well manifested in the structure of society, indeed in the smaller unit of a society i.e. family. A family is a set of human beings related to each other in a non-professional manner, giving rise to a concrete cohesion within the family. Love, care, and affection are the most prominent human values, which are responsible for maintaining these bonds of relationships within a family. Typically, a nuclear family may be conceived as a unit consisting of a couple, children, and grandparents, and pets. In India however, there exists a special kind of family structure that really is quite vivid in the way it manages to handle and keep intact the human relations. This special kind of family structure is Joint Family System. A joint family is a collection of more than one, nuclear families that are interconnected by blood relations or marital relations. All the members, regardless of which particular nuclear family (within that joint family) they belong to, live together and share happiness, grief, and virtually every kind of problem and joy together. The joint family in itself simulates a typical view of our multi-cultural, multi-lingual, yet tightly intertwined Indian society. Indian president replies to a question related to spiritual strengths of India as:

This Seed Will Bear No Fruit

2019 ◽  
pp. 262-283
Author(s):  
Friday A. Eboiyehi
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Family System ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Western World ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Old People's Homes

The continuous increase in the number of older people and the gradual erosion of the extended family system which used to cater to them are alarming. While older people in much of the developed countries have embraced old people's homes as an alternative, the same cannot be said of older people in Nigeria who still believed that it is the duty of the family to accommodate them. The chapter examined the perception of older people about living in old people's home in some selected local government areas in Osun State, Nigeria. The study showed that their perception about living in old people's home was poor as many of them still held on to the belief that it was the responsibility of their family members to house them as it was done in the olden days. Although a few of the interviewees (particularly those who are exposed to what is obtained in the Western world and those with some level of education) had accepted the idea, many preferred to live with their family rather than being dumped in “an isolated environment,” where they would not have access to their family members. Pragmatic policy options aimed at addressing this emerging social problem were highlighted.

The Manager Caregiver

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-125
Author(s):  
Elaine Wittenberg ◽  
Joy V. Goldsmith ◽  
Sandra L. Ragan ◽  
Terri Ann Parnell
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Family System ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
Care Recipient ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Communication Climate ◽  
Professional Help ◽  
The Family

As the Manager emerges from a communication climate of HIGH/WARM conformity (strong pull to share in similar values, attitudes, beliefs, and familial role expectations) and HIGH/COLD conversation (frequent and restricted communication contacts within the family system), the priority and commitment to family is prioritized. This priority can subvert the needs of this caregiver, and the Manager can find themselves protecting the care recipient and, at times, other family members from the challenges associated with understanding a diagnosis and its treatment. The Manager is drawn to professional help and support as well as health information, but this does not mean the Manager is sure about either—and they are strongly reliant on opinions of providers and professionals in their midst. The Manager employs similar approaches to all manner of pain (physical, emotional, social, psychological, spiritual) and because of the vigilance of the Manager, serving as the expert on the patient is a key-defining trait that is communicated via interactions with providers, family, patient, and other players. This trait positions the Manager to plan and activate care and advance the dynamics of the family system in which they live.

Fifty Years of Family Change

2014 ◽  
Vol 654 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank F. Furstenberg
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
Family System ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Current System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Developed Nations

The first section of the article discusses how and why we went from a relatively undifferentiated family system in the middle of the last century to the current system of diverse family forms. Even conceding that the family system was always less simple than it now appears in hindsight, there is little doubt that we began to depart from the dominant model of the nuclear-family household in the late 1960s. I explain how change is a result of adaptation by individuals and family members to changing economic, demographic, technological, and cultural conditions. The breakdown of the gender-based division of labor was the prime mover in my view. Part two of the article thinks about family complexity in the United States as largely a product of growing stratification. I show how family formation processes associated with low human capital produces complexity over time in family systems, a condition that may be amplified by growing levels of inequality. The last part of the article briefly examines complexity in a changing global context. I raise the question of how complexity varies among economically developed nations with different family formation practices and varying levels of inequality.

scholarly journals Family and fertility: does kin help influence women’s fertility, and how does this vary worldwide?

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Sear
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Reproductive Decisions ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Kin Support ◽  
Salient Factor ◽  
Context Specific

AbstractDespite the tendency of some academic disciplines to assume that the nuclear family is normative, the family takes a number of different forms cross-culturally. Regardless of family form, family members typically cooperate in raising children. Intergenerational help (from grandparents to parents and children), for example, is a cross-cultural universal. Such cooperation means that the availability of kin may be one salient factor in deciding whether and when to have children. Here I consider the evidence for whether the availability of kin does influence fertility, and whether these relationships vary cross-culturally. I find evidence from middle and lower income populations that the presence of kin does increase fertility, and that these relationships are plausibly driven by cooperation between family members. In higher income contexts, associations between kin and fertility are mixed, and appear particularly sensitive to how kin availability and support is measured. There is some evidence that certain measures of support from kin (such as emotional support or help with childcare) increases the likelihood of subsequent births, but kin support is not always positively associated with fertility. Family matters for fertility, then, though these relationships may be complex and context-specific. Policy needs to take this diversity into account, and should not focus exclusively on the nuclear family model, nor neglect the roles other family members play in reproductive decisions.

Superficial and systemic diagnosis of family

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waldemar Świętochowski
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Family System ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Assessment ◽  
Assessment Measure ◽  
The Family ◽  
Systemic Model ◽  
Psychological Questionnaires

Superficial and systemic diagnosis of family The distinction between two types of diagnosis of family was inspired by the concept of surface and source features of personality by R.B. Cattell. By means of existing psychological questionnaires we can only know the surface of consciously available mental phenomena. The same is true in the diagnosis of family. The McMaster model of family, systemic in its assumptions, developed research tools giving access only to the surface of the phenomena. Although they are divided into certain thematic categories they do not reveal what is really important in the family system. In this article, the author, after a detailed discussion of one of the tests based on the McMaster theoretical model, is attempting to identify the source features (here: unavailable for conscious cognition) of the family, hereinafter called systemic traits. In this research the exploration factor analysis was used. Three perspectives of the opinion of the family were maintained (like in the Family Assessment Measure). Factor analysis allowed identification of three factors for each perspective of the family assessment. Confirmative analysis proved a satisfactory match (using RMSEA, GFI and AGFI statistics). The accuracy of the identified systemic model was then tested by a confirmation study (confirmative factor analysis using Amos from SPSS). The authors also prepared a provisional questionnaire for measuring these systemic traits of the family. The tool proved to be promising and the work worth continuing. Incidentally, it turned out that the characteristics of the family system are relatively independent of personality traits of family members.

Family, Loss, and Change

2018 ◽  
pp. 221-232
Author(s):  
Katherine R. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Relationship Dissolution ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Loss ◽  
Legal Marriage

Same-sex relationship dissolution has reverberations for individuals beyond the nuclear family. This chapter discusses a lesbian-parent family, consisting of two moms and two kids—when it broke up nearly two decades ago, many other family members, including the donor and his husband, were deeply affected. This chapter reflects on this experience from the author’s perspective of a family scholar and an activist for LGBTQ family rights. In the absence of legal marriage and thus legal divorce, family lives turned out in ways that even the most careful, deliberate efforts could not anticipate nor protect. The experiences described highlight many losses and regrets, despite the intentional love and concern for all of the parents, children, and extended family members involved. These reflections on this experience are intended to honor the family as it once was and the families they have become.

Session 8: Family Roles, Communication, and Support

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-102
Author(s):  
Bryan D. Carter ◽  
William G. Kronenberger ◽  
Eric L. Scott ◽  
Christine E. Brady
Keyword(s):  
Family Communication ◽  
Family Systems ◽  
Family System ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Parenting Behaviors ◽  
Family Roles ◽  
Family Dynamic ◽  
Family Situation ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact

Session 8 is again focused primarily on family communication and dynamics for the purposes of identifying and addressing parenting behaviors and parent–teen dynamics that may unwittingly undermining teen confidence in becoming more independent in managing their illness and lifestyle. The clinician engages the family in a discussion of parental and teen roles within the family system and an examination of the impact of the teen’s illness on family members’ roles. Behavioral family systems concepts of “misguided support” and “strong beliefs” that family members hold, but that inadvertently may be serving to maintain a dependent or even overprotective/enmeshed family dynamic, are introduced and applied to the family situation, along with strategies for moving these dynamics in a more independence-engendering direction.

Like Her Own: Ideals and Experiences of the Mother-In-Law/Daughter-In-Law Relationship

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (15) ◽  
pp. 2102-2127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keera Allendorf
Keyword(s):  
Family System ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Joint Family ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Indian Village ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Close Family ◽  
Quality Relationships

This article explores ideals and experiences of the mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship using semistructured interviews with 46 members of 22 families living in one Indian village. Ideally, the relationship is characterized by love and understanding, where one’s mother-in-law or daughter-in-law is like one’s own daughter or mother. In practice, the relationship varies in quality. Some women experienced affectionate, high-quality relationships, whereas others’ relationships were characterized by hurtful exchanges and not speaking. Previous literature portrays the relationship as negative, but these results point to the relevance of positive aspects as well. I also suggest that these ideals and experiences are shaped by the joint family system. The joint family system contributes to the strongly positive ideal, whereas the tensions that women experience arise from the contradictory family locations that they occupy within that system. Daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law are simultaneously strangers and close family members.

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