Principles and Techniques of Veterinary and AH Extension

FAMILY

• The family is the most multifunctional of all institutions in the society and is a system of organised relationships involving workable and dependable ways of meeting basic social needs.
• Specifically family fulfils the following tasks in society.
  • Reproduction and perpetuation of the family and human race.
  • Socialization.
  • Economic maintenance and livelihood.
  • Provision of love, affection and security to the individual and
  • Provision of status to the individual of the family into which he / she has been born.
• Secondary Institutions
  • Engagement,
  • Marriage,
  • Courtship and
  • Relationship with the family into which marriage has taken place.
• The family has tremendous influence on the individual, his / her behaviour and their actions for it moulds them from infancy and has significant influence on the development of ones personality.