Quality of relationship dynamics in families of Kerala

This study is intended to understand the quality of relationship dynamics prevailing in families of Kerala. Family is a premier laboratory for understanding more about how relationship dynamics is associated with child development. Husband-wife or father-mother relationship is the primary and most significant amongst the nexus of affiliations on which a family revolves. Drastic changes have taken place in families of Kerala at economic, social, cultural and psychological levels that have a colossal impact on our mantle as parents in the context of globalization,commercialization and liberalization. The kind of relationship dynamics which the joint family system provided to children have been deteriorating fast. Nuclear family has been substituted with the joint family system in Kerala. Whether this recast in the family configuration and relationship dynamics is good or bad for children is the research question. The sample consists of 1080 secondary school students. Multidimensional