Abstract
This paper critically examines hypothesized trends towards the conjugal family in India. author offers empirical evidence on the involvement of family members and outside kin in decision-making in nuclear, joint, and extended households, as well as upon attitudes towards the joint family on the part of a sample of 118 adult respondents firom families of children from two schools in Ahmedabad, India. Among the nuclear households, in about half the cases, nonresidential jfmily members were involved with decisions of respondents's family members. It was also found that the overwhelming majority of respondents from nuclear, extended and joint households and from various socioeconomic strata (upper and middle class) were in favor of the joint family. Other trends which have been interpreted as supporting movements towards the Western model of the conjugal family have been critically examined. These trends are also consistent with another model of the family, tentatively titled The Adaptive Extended Family.
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