The district has a predominant tradition of joint families. Male siblings reside under one household even after their marriage. However, some nuclear families are also there. New life styles have motivated people for a nuclear family system but sometimes economic requirements and sometimes cultural values restrain them from adopting this type of family system. If brothers are employed abroad, it becomes a moral and cultural obligation of the brothers staying at home to live in a joint family and look after the families of brothers abroad. If parents are in old age then also it is considered duty of the children to look after them.

The family ties are still good and relatively less materialistic. The family plays its role of social control instrument very effectively by means of socialisation. As a social institution, the family still is functional. In Gwadar the family pattern is patriarchal and patrilocal in most cases.

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