Family And Multigenerational Factors In The Development Of Family Development

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The family is a system that adolescents reside in, interact with and receive influence. Family is expected to be the nurturing and fostering place for the development of adolescent. The developmental task of the family at the adolescent phase of the family life cycle is to provoke more independence and autonomy in adolescent through making the adjustment in granting more flexibilities in boundary and rules. A child or an adolescent can never choose their family of origin. However, family does not always have smooth pathway during the progression of time. When some family had more difficulties than others in their moving through life cycle, the hardship sometimes hinders or disrupts the development of adolescent. A stressor is regarded as …show more content…

As the drastic changes happened on the family structure and the socio cultural aspects, the modified family life cycle carried the broader view to include all the possible contextual factors during the development. The goal of the family life cycle is to investigate the impact of family development in the progression of time. The scholar also noticed that family across the generations was like a system that carried the same histories and certain patterns in the emotional and relational aspects. Nature and patterns passed on down to the generations through stereotypes, values, belief, taboos, expectations and issues. Scholars add one dimension of the multigenerational influence into the context of the family in the form of vertical stressors (McGoldrick, 2011). The emotional subsystem in the family system is in play with the emotional development of both parents and child. Multigenerational emotional transmission became psychological inheritance. They were so unaware that was like an invisible risk factor in the system. Adolescent and parents could be burdened with the baggage of multigenerational emotional pattern without knowing its existence. When the parents came from under functioned or dysfunctional families, the parents had their unresolved emotional issues. The parents were not likely to have a role model of parenting functions from their family of origin. The parents were not able to fulfill the duty of parenting functioning. The multigenerational emotional pattern simply disrupt the parenting and family

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