The scientific developments and subsequent technological revolutions have influenced the family pattern to a great extent. Joint or extended families of the good old days are no longer as common as they once were. Breakdown of joint family system and huge migration of rural men- folk to urban and suburban clusters have resulted in the emergence of nuclear families and increase of women headed household. All these changes have played a transforming trick with both the social and physical environments enjoyed by the child (Youssef, N. & Hertler, C.B. 1984).