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f. Recreational importance
In the family, people can get involved into various
entertainment activities like dancing, singing, playing
games, cracking jokes, watching movies, laughing, etc.
With such entertainment activities, people can remain
healthy and happy.
Fig: 15
g. Proper caring
In the family, children are loving and dearing ones.
Parents love their children a lot. They sacrifice their
happiness, tensions, discomforts and busy life for the
sake of caring their children. There is also caring of
diseased and old family members in the family.

h. Proper guidance Fig: 16
Parents are very much worried about bright future of their children. They encourage their
children to follow right path and not to follow wrong one. They guide children in every
sector of life. They prepare background for their children to make them independent.

i. Security
There is security and protection of all family members in family. Generally, people get
protection from heat, cold, water, wind, dust particles, animals, enemies, etc. in the family.
Feeling of security is one of the bases for happiness and improvement of living standard.

Types of family

Various types of families were developed in the course of development of family. They
were classified into several types on the basis of their characteristics, roles and structures,
etc. Based on family size, family can be divided into following types:
a. Nuclear family or small family

b. Joint family or large family or extended family

a. Nuclear family or Small family
The family which consists of 1 or 2 adults and their
children living together is called nuclear family.
Generally, nuclear family has less members. But, it
can also be large when parents bear more number of
children. A family remains nuclear unless a son gets
married and bears a child. There should not be more
than two generations in a nuclear family. This family Fig: 17
is also regarded as small family when there are less
members. Small family is considered as happy family. This family is very popular in the
world and is in increasing trend in our context too.

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