What are the effects of industrialization on extended family?

Answer 1

Industrialisation makes it less likely that the extended family will exist as a functioning social unit.

In countries going through the process of industrialisation, such as India, the commonest pattern is for young adults to leave home and migrate to a city where industrial jobs are (relatively) available, and maybe marry another city-resident whom they'd never have met in village life. These young adults will see much less of their extended family than those who stay in the village.

In a later stage of the economic process, only the old are left in the villages. People are scattered among cities. They come "home" to their grandparents only for major festivals and funerals.

In long-industrialised countries, such as those of western Europe, extended family hardly exists any more.