G. P. Murdock's Four Functions Of Family

Every individual belongs to some kind of family in the world. A child requires support and care while growing up. A child also requires others from whom he or she can learn language, culture, norms of the society to sustain life and also to be able to adjust to the world in order to lead a harmonious life. The importance of family has been talked about since the conception of it.
Family has been defined as a social group and the smallest social unit. There are seen as an universal institution which performs certain universal functions.
G.P. Murdock has pointed out four major functions of a family which are as follows:
One of the functions which the family takes charge of is the sexual function wherein an individual is not in charge for their sexual activity and the family makes sure that there is socially appropriate display of one's sexual desire and in most indian families, no display or mention of the sexual desires, at all. The burden of controlling a woman's sexuality with respect to socialisation is on her family's shoulder, a woman is constantly instructed by her family members as to what can she do and what she cannot. One of the benefits of controlling the sexuality is to make sure that the woman is eligible for marriage.

Women are way more restricted than men in the way they move. Women find it unimaginable to sit with their legs wide apart, stretch in a public place or even run freely without caring about their breasts or hips. A 'loose woman' violates the norms. The term 'loose' has been carefully constructed by the society because she is not only loose in 'character' but in her manner of talking and quite literally in the free and easy way she moves her body. It is taken for granted that a woman of 'loose' character is also the woman who is not dressed properly, does not talk in the 'feminine' way or sits in a way approved by the