The most important institution in every society.
Together with all the above problems, there is an increasing breakdown of our family system.
- Early marriage early divorce and increase in young divorcees.
- Increase in overall divorce
- Increase in unknown fathered children with no meikha
- Increase in multi-fathered children in one family
- Increase in untimely death of husband resulting in increase of young widows. Why are there so many young widows in our society when there is no war?
- Increase in child labour (die kwai, kot khubor, etc.)
- Increase in number of orphanages, where are the Kurs and the Khas. Dei tang ha ka jaid bynriew Khasi ba ki khun ki kylla khunswet tang shu iap ka kmie watla dang don u kpa, haba ka kur ka long kaba duk.
- In a family where there are no daughters only sons, the moment the parents especially the mother dies , the mother’s clan will take away all of that family’s property including the house, and the sons will be left literally on the street.
- Increase in number of old age homes, again where are the Kurs and the Khas, bad ka Khun Khatduh?
