Cultural Constraints and Daughters’ Role in Caring Old Age Parents: A Study of Jind District of Haryana

ABSTRACT

This study focuses on the integration of macro and micro approaches. Macrostructure i.e. culture and micro-level behaviour i.e. daughters role is analyzed in term of how cultural constraint prohibited the married daughters in performing their responsibilities towards their old age parents on the one hand, and simultaneously how married daughter are reshaping the cultural norms by the act of balancing between their parents home and in-laws home. The main objective of this research is to analyze the role of married daughters in taking care of their old age parents. Using the everyday life approach 146 old age parents are interviewed. It is found that traditional norms are still operating and prohibiting the married daughters in taking care of their old age parents, however, some changes are also occurring and losing the control of these oppressive customs/norms.

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