Question

2) Discuss significance of compassionate family (modern nuclear family) in the formations of modern nation states by explaining changing ideas of intimacy, love and modalities of femininity (parenthood, sexuality etc.).

Answer 1

Modern nuclear family, also known as conjugal family, is a family of two parents and their children. Now a days, it is known to be as a compassionate family as well. As the name indicates, the nuclear family may have the compassionate relationship between the family members. The primary significance of a nuclear family is the reduced social contacts that further reduce the relationship burden like it happens in extended or joint families. A nuclear family is more likely to possess individualistic pattern of living becaue people of a nuclear family are less connected to the members of their extended family. Thus, they have a different perception of family environment, a different intimate relationship within & outside the family, and a different pattern of interacting behavior. They are most likely to enjoy their love relationship, within the family (like in between siblings) or outside the family (like in between couple), in solitude while keeping a social distance from others known to them. People having nuclear family, thus, creates a particular class, community, or even a nation based on their individuality and self-centeredness. They enjoy everything in their life consisting education, earning, love relationship, sex, parenthood, and other relationship in isolation from many people.