People living together by ties of marriage, blood or adaptation as a unit forms a family.
A family consisting of a pair of adults and their children is called small family or nuclear family.
Nuclear family
Joint family or big family is large in size consisting of members of 3 or more generation such as grandparents, parents, siblings, uncles, aunts and cousins living in one home.
Joint family
Family is important in our life because :
What does family do?
How are families different?
Families can be different in many ways. Different families may :
In a family every member cares for each other and shares in the responsibility of household work. Grandparents share responsibility by doing gardening, going to the market to buy vegetables, taking children to the park in the evening, telling bedtime stories to the kids etc.
Grandparents
Mother cooks food for everyone, do most of the household task, take care of children when they are sick, takes care of everyone. A mother is the backbone of a family.
Mother
Father goes to the office and support the family financially, helps out others in household work on weekends.
Father
Elder brother or sister help their younger brother or sister in completing their school work, keeping their toys back after play, help elderly people of the family who cannot take care of themselves.
Younger can help by keeping their room neat and clean, helping grandparents in gardening, helping mother in certain kitchen work.
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