Extended family may be understood as:
(A) set of sisters living together with their families
(B) more than two generations living together
(C) set of brothers living together with their families
(D) women headed family
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A), (B), (C) only
(A) set of sisters living together with their families Correct. An extended family can take different forms, but it always has more than one couple living together. Sisters living together with their husbands and children make up more than one couple under one roof, so this is one form of it.
(B) more than two generations living together Correct. The extended family has more than one couple and often more than two generations, as when an elderly couple lives with their sons, grandsons and their families. A nuclear family, by contrast, has only one set of parents and their children.
(C) set of brothers living together with their families Correct. This is the commonest example of the extended family, often called the ‘joint family’: a set of brothers with their individual families.
(D) women headed family Incorrect. Whether a family is male-headed or female-headed is a different way of classifying it, by who heads it, not by its size. Migration of men from the villages of the Himalayan region, for instance, leads to an unusual proportion of women-headed families; such a family may be nuclear or extended.
NCERT (2025-26): “NUCLEAR AND EXTENDED FAMILY … A nuclear family consists of only one set of parents and their children. An extended family (commonly known as the ‘joint family’) can take different forms, but has more than one couple, and often more than two generations, living together. This could be a set of brothers with their individual families, or an elderly couple with their sons and grandsons and their respective families.…” “…In itself a family can be defined as nuclear or extended. It can be male-headed or female-headed. The line of descent can be matrilineal or patrilineal. This internal structure of the family is usually related to other structures of society, namely political, economic, cultural etc. Thus the migration of men from the villages of the Himalayan region can lead to an unusual proportion of women-headed families in the village.…” |