Changing family, marriage and care systems

Indian families are changing, but not along a single road from joint to nuclear: households divide and reunite, marriages mix choice and arrangement, and care for children and elders is renegotiated across distance. A migrant son may live in a nuclear flat in Pune yet send money, visit festivals and consult parents on major decisions, remaining part of a joint moral economy. This chapter covers children, youth and elders, emotions, emergent family forms, changing marriage and changing care and support systems.