I agree that ensuring family wealth is a big factor in societies keeping . And here I am speculating but I see the mergence of both a narrowing and a broadening of the term family. Being outside the IT world but having spent many an afternoon eavesdropping on IT professionals on Brigade Road while living in Bangalore in 2005, I observed that on the one hand there is the large IT family, where many people understand the stresses as well as the opportunities so within the peer group it is acceptabe to have an out such as divorce or a midlife crisis. At the same time, the family has come to mean a smaller and smaller unit, until it is down to the individual. This is not to say that marriage is not an institution worth preserving. in the old days, a marriage might have been the merging of two identities, but to day it is more like a Venn diagram representing intersection!
All of this is only serving to make me nostalgic for the great 70s film, Kramer vs. Kramer... 2007/8/5, Radhika, Y. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2007/8/5, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Monday 06 Aug 2007 2:06 am, Radhika, Y. wrote: > > > We Indians are highly goal focused rather > > > than process oreinted-I suspect that old fashioned contempt for dating > > > also > > > has to do with intolerance for ambiguity and low risk tolerance ather than > > > mere morality > > > > Control of male and female sexuality is important for the preservation of > > family wealth. When wealth becomes relatively assured, such control of > > sexuality becomes redundant. > > > > But, as Eugen has pointed out, birth rates have fallen in such societies for > > various reasons. I am guessing that birth rates will fall among the subset > > of > > Indians who belong to the IT sector but continue to remain high among > > others. > > > > In other words, the IT sector is likely to become synonymous with "long > > hours, > > high salary, no family" - unless something changes. > > > > shiv > > > > >
