What kind of Family is yours - Nuclear or Large...??

I too have a nuclear family setup. It is only my Dad, Mom, and me. It has been like that as long as I can remember. Though we used to live in a neighborhood where my other relatives, cousins, Aunts and Uncles live just on our street so it would be easy for me to visit them, especially my Grandma. Now, most of the families have moved but one of my Aunts and my Grandma stayed in the old neighborhood. It's all good because whenever there's a get together, we would all go to my Grandma's house and we also get to visit the old neighborhood.^_^

Here in the Philippines we also do practice a large family living. But with limitations... The grandpas and grandmas may live with their children but not with other siblings who was families already. Though some do that... Sometimes the children live on their parents house to take care of the oldies by the grandchildren. Normally, the children and their families live close to the grannies. Provided that they have their own houses but they're all in one compound lot. It's a happy experience and life's not boring with other family's near you. As a child you have playmates through your cousins. As a grown up, you can help each other immediately whenever in need and share opinions with each other. As the old person, you can see your family expanding and your grandchildren growing up knowing you. Though of course some disadvantages are your absolute privacy will suffer because they might be talking about you and most often misunderstanding would occur. I do have my family's live in a compound. The experience is nice knowing that you could go on some places you are very welcome and get mingle with someone you can fully trust anytime of any day.

hi arunmails I have noticed with pleasure from the indian couple that used to go to my diabetes support group how family oriented Indians are and this couple were my friends as they were so warm and giving. their adult son and daughter were still living with them and they thought nothing of that,its the normal thing they told me in India , family is family. Here in the US we tend to sort of push our adult children out to stand on their own two feet b ut with the economy the way it is parents should realize that sometimes family has to be family, and let their adult children stay with them so as to make ends meet. Now my son and I are our only family as I have been a widow for many years, and a long time back we lost our other child a sweet little girl when she was just 8.very hard to lose a child. so now my son and myself are a little nuclear family.

WE are only three in the family actually...I, my husband and our only son but it grows bigger because my twin grandchildren by my niece frequents our house as well as my nieces and other children by my other nieces. They do love to come and stay in our house so that my small family is no longer small but getting bigger and bigger everyday. Well I enjoy it anyway!

Hii Mine Is a nuclear familiy,my city is an urbanized city and its very rare to see any big joint families

Our family is a nuclear family just like what you have. I have my dad, mom, me and little kid. Since my brother is already married, he already moved out from our house. He is living separated with us.

I don't know how many very large families remain here in the USA. We have many cultures who live that way in their original countries and maybe they still do here. We still have small towns were most are related in some family way. But in the urban areas it's hard to find room for a large family to live together.

My family is nuclear now. My dad, mom, brother, sister, and I. We used to have a big family with my grand parents and my father's siblilngs. My father thought it was better to have a large family so that the kids would get love from all the family members and lear sharing and other good aspects of life. Things went out in the opposite way of my father's expectations. There were lots of conflicts in the family mainly financial issues. Nobody wanted to spend money for the whole family. Everybody wanted to spend very little and wanted to take advantage of others expenses. My dad ended spending a lot of money for his family members because of his love to the family. But, he couldn't get the love back from them and finally decided to move from the big family.

Hiii there arun I live in nuclear family as well just like you and i love it that way.I do have my relatives who live some 10 distance form us so they are always there if we are in some trouble.I dont think so there is need to stay with each other.I am a sort of person who need my privacy and my views about religion and that of my relative arent that much similar.Thats the reason i feel its better to stay away little form each other.This way everybody is free to do whatever they want to do and still we are there for each other in need.

It's common for remote towns to have extended families but in the city it is kind of rare. I only live with my father and younger brother and indeed we are a very small family.

hi,arun,not only you,in 70%-80% of the families are nuclear families,because of different reasons like migration for jobs and other activities... The remaining 30%-@0% is who are still in villages who are in farming.. Any how we can't[i am also from nuclear family]live along with all our relation,but atleast make it possible that atleast once in a year,meet all the relations at one place preferably in our native places/...

Hi machi; I am also from tamil nadu. I had a really bad opinion on joint families by seeing tamil movies and soaps on TV. They only portray all the members fighting and in-laws hitching plans over others. Also the maamiyar - marumagal fight has been a tradition in tamil nadu. But I think you discussion has made me believe that even joint families could be united and happy.

Mine's a big one. We're 6 in my nuclear family. My grandma and uncle is living with us + my mum's best friend who's very close to us. We also have two household helps and 4 dogs :) we live in a small house that's why we're always noisy. haha. It's fun. we can have a party just by ourselves

Hi Arunmails, Very glad to meet you online. I am from China. My family is not so big as your friend in India and not so small as you. I live with my boyfriend, my boyfriend's mother and father. My boyfriend's grandmother( mother of my boyfriend's father) live with us one week every three week. Her husband passed away many years ago and she will be very lonely if she lives alone. She has three sons, so she lives with these three sons every week in return. Sometimes my boyfriend's grandfather(father of my boyfriend's mother) comes to live with us for some time, but not so frequently. Look forward to your reply. All the best. Yours friends, jxndwl

Mine is a nuclear family, though there are way too many nucleons in it! Me, my sisters, my brother and mom-dad... Now there are not much joint families even in India.....

I just stayed with the nuclear family. I do not like when many families lived in one house. will usually cause unwanted problems. if you live far away, there will be a sense of longing and when meeting will be many stories to tell. with such familiarity will remain always awake. if near the problems usually arise because of little things.

Dear friend , i assure you that along your side i am been shocked of hearing this , since its the first time i read such a thing , but to be honest this is really a smart think to do , since the bigger the number the more easier it is to stay protected from the villains and more easier to share the expenses of the house , as it goes for my fammilly , we are not really big as number , my sister recently mooved out of the house and now lives with her husband , and it now left only me , my fiancee , my grandmother and my mother at the house , because the recent husband of my mother lives alone at he's own house.

haha so funny. i really cant help myself but laugh while reading this.. well, my family is big but as big as what you have describe above..i ihave 1 bro and 2 sistah!