(a) Knowledge of women: Knowledge of women is also responsible for the disintegration of joint family. Young educated women being fully aware of their new rights and status in the society are no longer ready to present their mother-in-law with humility. The mother-in-law with her traditional domineering attitude fails to adjust herself with the educated women of the younger generation. As a result, conflicts arise and end in the dissolution of the joint family.

(b) Influence of Western Culture: Western culture has encouraged individualistic tendencies among young men and women, as a result of which they do not want their fate to be tied to joint family forever. B BSaha has rightly observed that individualism as a gift of Western culture has given rise to separatist tendencies. Moreover, they do not like to live in the tight grip of joint family influenced by western values ​​like rationalism, equality, liberty etc. The end result is the disintegration of the joint family system.

(c) Overpopulation: In rural India, agriculture is the main occupation of the rural people. Since the land is stagnant, agriculture fails to provide employment to the increasing number of people dependent on it. Rapid growth of population leads to imbalance of man and land equation. People are forced to move to cities and towns in search of employment. This has led to the disintegration of the joint family.

(d) Developed Means of Transport and Communication: In the past, there has hardly been any significant development in the field of transport and communication. So the level of mobility was low. But today there is mass mobility as a result of the developed means of transport and communication. People go to different places to avail better employment opportunities. Due to this joint families start breaking up.