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Global Family Day: Increasing modernization across the world has ended the concept of joint family. The reasons for this are limited income, economic insecurity, increasing ambition, unemployment and limited access to resources. Due to this, emotions are disappearing from relationships.

International Day of Families was celebrated for the first time on 15 May 1994. The theme of International Day of Families for the year 2026 has been kept as ‘Families, Inequalities and Child Wellbeing’. In modern society, families are disintegrating rapidly. In such a situation, families should remain united and youth should understand the importance of family, this is an important reason to celebrate International Family Day.

What does today’s Gen G generation think?

For today’s generation, the meaning of family has been limited to parents and children only. There are many new concepts for them, like single parents, divorced parents, adopted parents etc. Earlier the family size used to be 15-20 people, now it has become 3-4. Due to this, along with the upbringing of the children, their sentiments are also getting hurt.

Friends are becoming pets instead of humans.

A pet animal is seen in almost every nuclear family. These are not bad, but if they are brought in place of humans, they can become bad. Today’s children not only cherish dogs, cats, birds and fish, but they also find their friends, family, siblings and emotions in them.

Grandmothers’ stories just in stories

If someone asks a Millennial where they go during summer holidays, then without thinking they will say, grandparents’ house, but if you ask the same question to a Gen G or Gen Alpha, they will probably name a hill station. Grandmothers have also adopted this generation and are keeping pace with them.

privacy first choice

In modern times, privacy is the first priority. Privacy is the biggest reason for nuclear family. Where families used to be big, someone used to put restrictions on something or the other, which is a big thing for today’s generation. Things like personal space, personal room, consent hold more importance.

The decline in joint families is impacting the upbringing of children. In modern times, both the parents are working, in such a situation children often have to live alone, due to which emotional relationships, family relationships and belongingness are not able to develop in children.

In this period, the ways of connecting with family should also be smart. This distance in relationships can be bridged by small steps. For this, importance should be given to eating food with each other, doing digital detox, doing any activity together and open conversation. This will make the family strong and happy.