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Family and Marriage
Learning Objectives
- Introduction
- Forms of marriage: endogamy, exogamy, polygamy, polyandry, polygyny, monogamy
- Inter-caste marriage
- Marriage legislation and family problems in India
- Marriage–health connection
- Effects of marital status on health
- Family
- Family as a unit for health and other services
- Joint family
- Modern family
- Nuclear family
- Blended and extended family
1. FAMILY
Man’s social life begins with family. It is the most important primary group. It is the oldest social institution known to man. Family is the mother of social institutions. It is the first social environment to which a child is exposed. It is a place where most of the people spend more than a half of their lifetime.
Family is the centre of ...
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