In a joint family there are following members: the father. Mother, three married sons, one unmarried daughter. of the married sons two, have two daughter each and one has a son. how many female members are there in the family?

The correct answer is D.

Count every woman the statement implies. The mother is one. The unmarried daughter is two. Each of the three married sons has a wife, and the question says they are married, so those three wives are three more. Two sons have two daughters each, which gives four granddaughters. The third son has a son, so he adds no daughters. Total: 1 + 1 + 3 + 4 = 9.

• A) 2 counts only the mother and the unmarried daughter and ignores the grandchildren and daughters-in-law.
• B) 3 counts only the three wives or only the three sons' families, which is not what the question asks.
• C) 6 is the trap. It counts the mother, the unmarried daughter and the four granddaughters but leaves out the three daughters-in-law, who are members of the joint family.

The core concept is careful family-tree counting: a marriage adds a member even when the spouse is not named. In a Mains answer on the joint family, this links to how kinship and coparcenary rights shape household structure. The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 gave daughters equal coparcenary rights, which changed the position of female members in joint Hindu families.

Trap: stopping at the names given in the statement and forgetting that a married son implies a wife.