Family is the basis of social order

May 15 is World Family Day

By Devendraraj Suthar

Family is such a social organization which is implemented with mutual support and coordination and all the members of which live their life together with love, affection and brotherhood. Sanskar, dignity, respect, dedication, respect, discipline, etc. are the qualities of any happy and prosperous family. Any person is born in the family, he is identified with it and teaches good and bad traits from the family itself. The family keeps all the people together and all support each other in sorrow. It is said that there is no wealth greater than the family, there is no mentor greater than the father, no world is greater than the mother’s zenith, no better partner than brother, no more auspicious than sister, so life without family It is hard to imagine. A good family plays an important role in the success of the person, from the character building of the child.

It is noteworthy that World Family Day is celebrated every year on 15 May. No matter how many changes our culture and civilization accept and refine themselves, the existence of the family institution has not come true. They may be made and broken, but their existence cannot be denied. His nature has changed and his values have changed but his existence cannot be questioned. No matter how much modern ideology we are living in, but in the end we feel contentment in converting our relationship from marriage institution to family. In the creation of any strong country, the family is like a basic institution, which sets new steps of progress day by day with its development programs. To say that the family is a small entity in the animal world, but its strength is effective in protecting us from every major problem. A person does not exist outside the family, so the family can never be imagined without existence. People form families and families form nations and nations form the world. Therefore it is also said that ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ means the whole earth is our family. Behind such a feeling is to reduce mutual disharmony, bitterness, enmity and hatred.

The concept of joint family has been there since ancient times in India. In the joint family, the elderly have been supported, and their experience and knowledge has benefited the young and the child generation. Due to joint capital, joint residence and joint responsibility, there is always an atmosphere of discipline and respect in the family due to the dominance of the elderly. But in the changing times, due to rapid industrialization, urbanization, modernization and liberalization, the tradition of joint family has started to crumble. In fact, joint families have started to disintegrate. The lifestyle of lonely families has made them accustomed to mobile by snatching the childhood of grandparents and children playing in the lap and listening to lullabies. Consumer culture, immaturity, personal aspiration, self-centered thought, personal self-realization, greedy mentality, mutual estrangement and lack of cohesion have led to the disintegration of the joint family culture. Due to lack of employment in villages, displacement of a large population often leads to cities. Due to overcrowding in cities, children are unable to keep their parents close even after wanting them. Even if they keep it, they do not mold themselves according to the urban life. People who breathe in the open air of the villages suffocate in the narrow streets of the city.

Apart from this, due to increasing influence of Western culture, the modern generation has started losing respect for their elders and parents. Parents who are mostly ill in old age are now feeling burdened by them. They have taken a lonely life as their real happiness and ideal, cut off from their values and values. A growing number of ‘old age homes’ in the country indicate that a healthy social perspective is urgently needed to save joint families in India. At the same time, due to the rise in inflation, one or two members of the family have the responsibility to run the whole house, due to inferiority among themselves. Due to the personal wishes and dreams of the earning member’s wife not fulfilling, she considers it beneficial to be separated. Apart from this, the views of the elderly class and the modern generation do not match. Elderly people like to live according to the old age, then the youth want to live the stylish life of today. This is why there is a lack of balance between the two, which causes the family to break up.

If the joint families are not saved in time, our future generations will waste their lives by becoming directionless and trapped in distortions even after the completion of knowledge. The real place of the elders, called the treasure of experience, is home, not old age home. There is no roof, there is no threshold, there is no door-to-wall, that house is not a house, in which there is no elderly. Which house is a family that does not have quarrels? But it is better if it is limited to pique. 

(The author is a freelance journalist. He continuously writes on contemporary topics. The views expressed are personal opinion of the author. He can be reached at devendrakavi1@gmail.com.)