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Modern families have not just become nuclear and neo-local, but also filiocentric. How do you explain this trend?

  • UPSC 2024
  • Systems of Kinship

A nuclear family is the conjugal unit of parents and unmarried children; neo-local residence means the couple sets up home apart from both parental households. A filiocentric family goes a step further: the child, not the patriarch or the lineage, becomes the centre of emotional investment, spending and decision-making. The three trends reinforce each other.

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  • From patri-centric to child-centric
  • Explaining the trend
  • Limits and Indian specificities
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