Merits & Demerits of Joint-Family

Joint family we means a group of people who generally live under one roof, who eat food , cooked at one hearth, who hold property in common, who participate in common family worship & who are related to each other. Joint family or traditional family is recognize as a set of social relationships and a functioning unit.

Definition:
According to Chandra Shekhar, "In a word joint family is simple, the common ownership of means of production & common enjoyment of fruits of labor".

Merits of Joint Family:

1. Protection against distress & unemployment
2. Common security
3. Joint responsibility
4. Old age security
5. Tolerance & mutual co-operation
6. Reservation of family tradition
7. Check on individual interest

Demerits of Joint family:

1. Joint family give raise to dependency
2. Hindrance to social mobility
3. Sloth(in activeness) & laziness
4. Jealousy & quarrel
5. Measurable condition of women
6. child marriage
7. Absence of privacy
8. Lack of individuality