Family Relationships and Dynamics

Family Relationships and Dynamics



Introduction

Modernity has generated changes in the internal dynamics family because it has provided to women entering the labor market, the family planning, academic preparation and reconciliation with his ego women. New faces and facets of women in the social context have prompted significant changes in family dynamics, because the responsibility of the home is no longer just a matter of the female gender, but man has had to start sharing responsibility with women both economically and distribution of household chores (cooking, washing, raising children, etc.). In this regard, the need to understand the family dynamics from the theoretical study of its characteristics: communication, affection, authority and roles, because in this way will help to improve relations between the different members of the family. For this purpose, addresses a review literature focus primarily on enabling tracing studies related to the concept of family, family dynamics and characteristics.

Thesis statement

“The family is seen as a group of people united by a social history and individual crossed by bonding and communication, not necessarily bound by consanguineous ties and the entry of women into the labor market. Internal family dynamics suffers significant changes evident in the roles, authority, communication, affection, limits and rules.”

Discussion

Concept of Family

The family is a group of people united by ties of mutual affection, mediated by rules, norms and practices behavior; it has a social responsibility to accompany all members in the primary socialization process so they can enter successfully secondary socialization. Collins cited by Hernandez states that the family is responsible for, a) the proper biological functioning of individuals in the society; b. Reproduction of its members; c) His proper socialization; d) The supply and distribution of goods and services; e) Maintaining order within the group and in their relationship with the rest of the social system, f) The definition of the meaning of life and motivation to preserve individual and group survival (Collins, 1987).

Concept of family dynamics

It has been emphasized that family dynamics is the web of relationships and links traversed by the partnership, exchange, power and conflict that develops between family members- Father, mother and children into it, according to the distribution of household responsibilities, participation and decision making. It implies a number of features that are peculiar.

Communication: family subjectivities tuning

Communication is a crucial point because family relationships are crossed by the exchange of thoughts; emotions and feelings among people linked to the family, and are exteriorized through action and / or verbal or nonverbal. According to (Burns and Pearson, 2011) communication can be addressed from different modalities including: refers to the first blocked, as possessing characteristics that little dialogue and exchanges between family members, in other words, is when members of the family communicate superficially and we are interested to bond deeper, the second, known as impaired communication, in which the relationships family are sealed by exchanges that are based on "reproaches, satires, insults, destructive criticism and long silences. This type of communication makes to surface distance and silence among those ...