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Inter-personal relations
♤ Traditional authority structure has changed. The head of the family- father/grandfather have started losing their authority to the bread winner of the family
♤ In nuclear families, there has been a change in marital rules and distributions of powers.
♤ Total subordination of women to men and strict disciplinarian role of father towards children are changing
♤ Individualism in younger generation is increasing, many of them don’t believe in total
surrender of their individual interests to family interests.
♤ However, due to penetration of technology connectivity with extended kins has improved.