The nuclear family, parallel to industrialization and urbanization, replaces traditional families. There are some economic, traditional and emotional conditions that form the duties and responsibilities of the modern nuclear family member. As for the economic conditions, each individual is supposed to play a part in supporting the continuation of the family. The father is usually responsible for making the basic income, the mother may perhaps contribute by working and if not, will assume full-time take care of the home. Grandparents may also supply help with incomes from their pension or returns from owned property and rents.
Tradition places the father as the head of the family, but the mother has equal rights.
The father is the representative and protector of the family whereas the mother takes care of all the day to day things. As Turkey is a Muslim country, Islam plays an important role in the lives of women. When Islam made marriage laws and put a limit on the number of wives allowed, it was accepted as the first system to give some economic rights to women by saving them from the sole sovereignty of their husbands. In Turkey, following the collapse of the Khilafat and the declaration of the Republic in 1923, Ataturk embarked on a program of Westernization and secularization, along with fanatical attempts to abolish Islamic customs from Turkish society. Unfortunately, this program continues today.