Account for the Breakdown of the Family as an Institution

The family is a set of parents and children or of relations living together or not. It is a race or group of people from a common stock. The family is the oldest institution devised by man. It is a legal social and moral institution because it perpetuates throughout generations. It existed from time immemorial. With time, it is a concept but its structure has changed. There has been a change from the extended family to the nuclear family. There are lots of factors which have contributed to this.…