Hindu Family Structures In India

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Hinduism is the 3rd largest religion in the world, this religion was found in the country of India and has a roughly 900 million adherents. There is no one founder of the religion and it is believed that the religion came about through the cultural and religious exchange between many groups of people occurring in India around 1500 BCE. Family is important to any culture or religion, Hindus tend to have mixed emotion on the family structure some calling it the building blocks to their everyday spiritual lives to help people reach renunciation or some may say it’s like a black hole where you loose spirituality and become detached, which has caused the younger generations to tweak the current structures in place with Western family structures. There are many different positions within the Hindu family structure as well, going from the Grandparents all the way to the In-laws all responsible for different chores and duties for the family. After the marriage ceremonies are complete and the couple received their blessings and finalized all the post marital traditions, the wife will typically leave her family to join her husband 's family, she is allowed to …show more content…

Interesting enough with this more modern family structure, it still encourages some of the traditional values of chores and duties for the family like financial assistants, child caring, cooking, cleaning, etc. The Hindu family structure, whether it is the modern or it is traditional they both still heavily believe in integrity, loyalty, unity within the family, having a sense of harmony and to reach

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