No harm in wishful thinking but slowly, but surely, the Indian family system is collapsing. Gone are the days when the head of the family joined a "permanent job" in his home town, supported his zillion brothers,sisters and aged parents. With shifting economic centers of growth and dynamically changing value system that tries to ape the Western culture in every fashion possible, families are becoming more and more nuclear. Earning power in the hands of teenagers and twenty somethings has changed their attitude towards life and Indian culture in general, promiscuity, inter-caste, inter-religious marriages that often end up in breaking existing ties.. I give all our family value system another ten to twenty years. I wish I can eat my words and live to see that I am wrong.
