{"id":7611,"date":"2026-04-12T23:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/?p=7611"},"modified":"2026-04-12T23:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:46:20","slug":"the-future-of-the-family-institution-in-turkey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/ot\/the-future-of-the-family-institution-in-turkey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of the family institution in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Family is the smallest social unit of society that connects marriage, blood ties, and ancestral<br>roots. While the nuclear family consists of the mother, father, and children, the extended<br>family consists of grandmothers, grandfathers, and relatives. Its foundation is built on loyalty,<br>respect, love, compassion, and sacrifice. While love, respect, and sacrifice are the most<br>important factors in the family, it is felt that there are significant differences between the<br>family structure of the past and those of today. Perhaps the first place where inequality<br>between men and women was born is the male dominance that has characterized long-lasting<br>marriages from the past to the present and still maintains its effects in our society. I believe<br>that women were most damaged in society within this mindset of the past family concept,<br>where thoughts like &#8220;the man knows, the man does, the man provides for his home&#8221; rose up,<br>and women were expected to look after the home and child and remain silent even if they<br>were right. We see the highest dimension of sacrifice in marriage within a family. The effect<br>of this society, where women appeared ignorant, on the family is observed in all stories where<br>women remained silent for the sake of their children and to prevent the concept of family<br>from breaking down; in these cases, the concept of marriage and family lasted a long time. Of<br>course, it would be very wrong to evaluate all of them in this way; this is a way of thinking<br>that applies to a certain segment.<br>Taking my own family into account, things where women are oppressed and silenced do not<br>happen in all families. A family structure where everyone offers compassion, respect, and<br>sacrifices to one another continues for many years. Family structures where men and women<br>appear equal, where only their areas of responsibility are different and they are aware of this,<br>progress more happily and for a longer duration. This psychology of long-term happiness and<br>love also affects the birth and growth of more well-adjusted and happy children, as well as<br>their behavior when they form their own families in the future. Briefly, I can call it a<br>psychological gene transfer. Instead of immediately throwing a broken item in the trash,<br>choosing to repair it rather than replacing it becomes one of the examples of sacrifice and<br>loyalty in our lives, ensuring the continuation of the beauty that item offers us. Having<br>mentioned the past this much, I want to talk about the family structure of the present and the<br>future. First of all, there are very big differences. I think the biggest difference that separates<br>the family structures of today and the ongoing future from the past family structure is<br>intolerance.<br>The intolerance people have for each other, spouses for each other, children for their parents,<br>or vice versa\u2014parents for their children\u2014and the decrease in the sense of patience certainly<br>damage the foundation of the family structure today and in the future. In contrast to women&#8217;s<br>behaviors in the past, the increase in their education levels and their ability to stand on their<br>own feet are completely tearing down the system of male dominance in society. While this<br>has often become a success in terms of women&#8217;s freedoms, the dynamics of the future family<br>structure are mostly changing. The long-lasting family structure, where male dominance was<br>accepted in the past and women remained silent, is now resulting in the termination of most<br>ill-fated marriages and family units as women defend their own rights and rebel against<br>injustices. We can summarize the behaviors brought about by this trend as follows: People<br>now prefer to throw things away when they break, rather than repairing them with<br>patience and devotion.<br>To summarize the subject; when we look at the past, the concept of family was a more sincere<br>and precious concept, but now we see that it is not valued or cared for as much as in the past;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>patience is decreasing and intolerance is gradually increasing. For this reason, the concept of<br>family is being damaged from its roots. Family is not a concept limited only to getting<br>married and having children. Values such as love, respect, loyalty, and compassion being<br>present within the established family are among the most important elements required for the<br>survival of the family. While the differences in family structure from the past to the present<br>are like this, my greatest advice and thought is this: A man and a woman first start the family<br>structure, which is the most basic and smallest unit of society. The children they bring into the<br>world by deciding together then start another family. For this reason, every child raised with<br>respect and love starts more respectful and compassionate family structures. Behavior is<br>everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dergipark.org.tr\/en\/pub\/intraders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/intraders-journal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/intraders-journal.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/intraders-journal-300x63.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/intraders-journal-768x160.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family is the smallest social unit of society that connects marriage, blood ties, and ancestralroots. While the nuclear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2694,"featured_media":6443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6416,6278,6400],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ot","tag-the-future-of-the-family-institution-in-turkey","tag-trend-blogs","tag-trend-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7612,"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions\/7612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7611"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}