Research Case Study: Mothers And Mother-In-Law

The study on the research article, Mothers and Mothers-in-law, compares the daughters’ relationship with their mothers and mothers-in-law; transitioning into parenthood, using family case studies. There were thirty-three young adult daughters, thirty mothers, and twenty-four mothers-in-law interviewed. Quantitative questionnaires were given to the daughters, their husbands, mothers, and mothers in-law. The daughters came from three small towns from western Massachusetts. Twenty-one of the daughters had children and twelve were without children. The oldest child was 2 ½ years old. Distance was used as a control variable to understand face to face contact. There were three independent variables in the analysis of the relationship: daughter parental

The components of the relational strain is the extent in which two people in a relationship do not relate smoothly, there is disagreement or hostility. Interpersonal boundaries is the separation between oneself and another person, formality, and boundaries are defined by positions in social networks. Interactive involvement refers to what individuals do with and for each other, involving face to face contact and exchange in aid. The results were connected to these three components. Daughters with children and without children tended to be more annoyed with their mothers-in-law rather than their mothers. According the recorded data in Table 1, 9% of the daughters said that their mothers annoyed them with children related issues and 60% said that their mothers-in-law annoyed them with issues related to children. The two daughters who said that their mothers were more annoying with issues dealing with children related things, recorded that they had painful relationships with their mothers. Orientation around the child increases a relation strain between daughters in-law and

Daughters with children need both help from mothers and mothers-in-law but express negative feelings about receiving help from mothers-in-law. Daughters with children expressed more equal time with their mothers. The interpersonal boundaries conclusion was that daughters. Were much more likely to ask their mothers about child raising rather than their mothers-in-law. Daughters analyze differences between themselves and their mothers-in-law when they have children. The relational strain conclusion was that children brings mothers and daughters together, because they have a shared attachment to the children; it separates the mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law