A study on early childhood experience of single child and its influence the marital well-being of single born children in their adulthood in Tiruchirappalli city

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S. Sathiya., Dr. G. Mettilda Buvaneswari

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The single child families are rise in developing nations are observed as a new trend in population, it develops low fertility. Especially India Human Development survey 2004 released that about 16 percent of women with a college degree seem to have stopped after one child, and that 13 pecent of those living in the metro cities. There are many reasons increasing single child families such as modernization, technology development, late marriage, economic pressure, women getting higher level jobs… but the absence of siblings result, the single child loss their intimacy, interpersonal relationship, taking responsibilities, sharing. This early childhood experience could affect the child later stage. So the researcher has selected early childhood experience of single child it influence the marital well-being of single born children in their adulthood stage. Quantitative descriptive design has been used to describe the parent child behavior pattern and marital well-being of the respondents. A sample size of 100 adults was studied through snow ball sampling method by using standardized inventory.  The self designed general information questionnaire was used to collect the demographic information of the respondents.  The parent child inventory (R.S. Sandhya, 2016) and marital well-being (Dr. P.S. Fashiya and Dr. C. Jayan, 2018) were used to assess the parent child behavior pattern and marital well-being of single child respectively. The results of the study revealed that there was a significant relationship between parent child behavior pattern and marital well being of single child in their adulthood age at 0.01 level (Karl pearson co efficient of correlation).

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