Unit 5 1
Unit 5 1
Unit 5 1
FAMILY
BY
Chirag
Goswami
FAMILY
Family is a group of people organised on the
basis of natural love and affection. It is the
fundamental social unit formed in the society,
which provides the safety, security, rearing of
children and for fulfillment of certain human
needs.
The word family has been derived from Latin
word ‘famulus’ means servant. In Roman the
word is denoted by a group of members
connected by a common descent or marriage.
DEFINITION
Dr Iravathi karve
characteristic
Large in size .
Joint property; provide social security,
leisure and recreation.
Antithesis of nuclear family.
common residence; sharing common
roof.kitechen.
common version .
cooperative organisation; promotes
cooperative virtues.
Productive unity
mutual right, responsibilities and
obligation
Authority with head of family
self sufficiency- to meet the economic,
recreational medical education and
other need of members.
Higher rate of procreation.
Advantages
Ensures economic progress.
protection of members
Division of labour
mean of recreation
Avoids fragmentation of property
security in wealth
Development of god quality
Cooperative, sharing and economy
stable and durable relationship
Disadavansatges:
Hinders in development of personality .
Encourages litigation or strikes.
Uncontrolled procreations (reproduction )
promotes laziness , idleness
lack of privacy and affects adversely socialisation of
children
Rigidity of superstitions and customs
poverty
Damages individual initiative and enterprise; the
centre of quarrels
Limits social mobility.
Basic Needs of Family
Impact of sickness on the
family.
1)Economic burden :
2) Disturbance in family routine
activities .
3) Leisure time
4) Altered family relationship
5) Disruptive and disintegrative effects
Health Aspects of family
planning
Family planinng and health have two-
way relationship
Women’s health
Foetal health
child health
Child Growth Development and
Nutrition :
Psychosomatic illness
Introduction :
Heinroth has used the term for the
first time in 1818,intra psychic conflicts
are responsible for structural change
and produce manifestations of diseases
through the disturbances in the function
of autonomic nervous system .
Definition :
“Prolonged influence of emotional
factors produces a group of diseases
where structural lesions are produced in
organs supplied by autonomic nervous
system”