Family Happiness: An Empirical Study

Everyone in the society desires happiness in families but unhappiness is increasing day by day with advancement of science, technology and living standard. There are certain variables accounting for happiness in family like income, religious faith, need based expenditure, free communication etc. which need to be taken care of. On the basis of happiness the families can be categorized to focus their problems properly for solution. The level of participation of husband and wife in family decisions is coming close due to expansion of education and awareness of responsibilities. The housewives should be armed with certain qualities like patience, supportive nature, and understanding of situation, self control to make their families happier. The reasons of unhappiness are to be correctly identified and focus be given to solve the problems. The conflict between husband and wife arise out of multiples causes which can easily be handled provided these are correctly identified and brought to the focus.