Marriage

01

Domestic Unit

The average household size is five to six people, with preference for an extended nuclear family. It is not unusual for an old person or couple to live alone, especially if they have few assets. Occasionally there are joint families when there is land or a business to keep intact. Most Influential families also have a live-in servant or servant family. When Tamil men migrate to a city for work, they try to take their wives and children along, so there is not a severe deficit of females in Tamil cities, but this means that urbanized Families find their rural roots weakening.

02

Inheritance

Under Tamil Hindu tradition, sons divide the land because they may live by cultivating it, and daughters get the mother’s gold and jewels either as dowry or as Inheritance, but there are many exceptions and people can arrange their own wills.

03

Socialization

Tamils are a child-friendly society where children grow up with a sense of well-being, less tension, and genuine hospitality. Adults freely care for children, passing them around, adopting relatives’ children, and feeding them by hand, with early toilet training and sudden weaning. Tamil culture values children through religious images and literature, and children learn wide verbal and emotional expression within family life. Girls help with housework early, boys do farm work, most children become literate, and girls have an important puberty ceremony linked to the Dravidian kinship system.

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