big fatness families stuff movies new realities like need childcare support elderly rising housing expenses making many come together indian family look wish kiddies city big branching folk sir herbert beerbohm tree greenwich village several generations living one roof tv serials barjatyas show work neither assumption right recently released regime data reveals even families increasingly fragmenting rural areas mass cities choosing live extended joint families urban bharat grew whereas rural areas heighten hybrid models units ane spouse passes siblings live in concert append nuclear unmarried proportional adds nuclear unit migration support needs elderly children need share resources urban families stretching join joint bhatnagars scattered across india share bengaluru take bhatnagars bengaluru siddhartha moved city job family scattered india brother prateek college chandigarh sister archana jaipur mother native lucknow father posted vadodara got married brought parents city made home soon brother moved got banking job archana daughter also joined brood family ninespot lives flat mahadevapura married woman pooja dated decade knew class understood would be rear brother category together also brought joint family pointless stay ii different sign brother fond says prateek father brother sister pool money use run household says siddhartha disposition families cluster cities surprise us says rajni palriwala sociologist delhi school economics ascension cost housing fact women work outside home children need seem vulnerability elderly mutual support offered big family reasons stay together city felt guilty rear far away getting older frailer made lives delhi says gajendra singh works delhi driver whose married woman parents live wife brother also stays intermittently working temporary jobs eat together live together source comfort rather stress mother misses hills weather uttarakhand felicitous us says meanwhile sahais lucknow indiranagar life resembles pic hum saath saath hain retired assistant superintendent police horendra sahai three sons five grandchildren share home father cohesive violence experience wisdom kept flock together senior high school low gear allege elder son anand disadvantages alike greater need adjust absence freedom like walking get dinner outside without put forward reason out admits brother rishi family says vantage shared responsibilities help hand healthy discussions feel togetherness far outweigh families in the beginning joint units split tensions individuals issue forth together later like ghosh family kolkata baguiati three siblings family unit live across five flats youngest five oldest bind strong among cousins ca even think living separately says debalina hazra one siblings mean ideas individualism certain prospect conjugal relationship women working international home seeped says sociologist janaki abraham people necessarily living together with lovemaking unique also convenient arrangement materially invested larger unit seen many business families says large urban property may soft partition points compared rural home land round well divided lot people gravitating nuclear house mean giving deprive privacy too crave life gate community pull exclude family says imna kumar part orotund joseph clan cit dependency chennai mylapore neighbourhood meanwhile village households choosing nuclear model unmatchable tone whole economy agricultural land fragments rural phratry lived share income articulate abraham migration research book of job despite stereotype single male migrant worker many workers also