1. I live in an extended family.
2.
- The advantage of Extended Family
+ The children in the family enjoy multi-parenting.
+ This family structure saves from the loneliness that is generally felt in the nuclear family.
+ Children have many members that can help them in their education.
+ The cousins can play together and share their thoughts and feelings with each other.
+ This family system inculcates family values among each member of the family.
+ The resources are generally pooled together, without burdening any single one.
+ Children learn sharing, caring, and cooperation, which help them develop a bond with the community in the society.
+ Household chores are not done by an individual but being shared among the member.
+ Living together generates the feeling of oneness.
+ This kind of structure generates empowerment.
+ It imposes self-discipline.
+ Each member is guaranteed with minimum basic subsistence required for living.
+ Resource pooling saves money.
+ Built, mutual understanding and collaboration among the members.
+ Tradition and culture run down the family.
- The disadvantage of Extended Family
+ The extended family has too much of a responsibility for elderly members.
+ Economic burden might fall more on one person.
+ Loss of independence.
+ Too much of a discipline.
+ Loss of privacy as there are too many people around all the time.
+ Monarchy kind of a family structure.
+ Spoilt children as they are being pampered by the aunts and uncles.
+ Interference in the personal chores.
+ Space crunch is a general problem faced in the extended family structure.
+ The generation gap can lead to misunderstanding and conflicts.
+ Different opinions can lead to quarrel among the members.
+ Demand sharing of food, time and space among the members.
+ Shortage of resources is often felt as there are many members.
+ Allows less free time, as too much of a work.
+ Too much of household chore.
