The present study replicates and extends this study by exploring the impact of nuclear and extended family living on the mental health of three generations (children, mothers and grandmothers) in British Hindu as well as Muslim communities. The concept of living with an extended family might seem daunting in the beginning but it has its own benefits. The Role Of The Extended Family In Child Development Maintaining positive relationships between children and their extended family members should be encouraged and continued. The original concept for Mirror Families was devised by Claire Brunner and premised on the assumptions that lack of a robust extended family or kinship network is a significant feature of vulnerable families and that in well-functioning, naturally occurring extended families, there are a number of adults who play a significant role in contributing to children's development while simultaneously supporting parents (Brunner & O'Neill, 2009). The extended family is an institution that plays an important role in influencing individual and household choices in developing countries, and through this, their well-being.
The concept of living with an extended family is getting blurred day by day as most of the nuclear families now prefer living alone. For example, grandmothers, aunts and sisters provide information on how to care for children, while siblings, … Coercive parenting engenders aggression in children, either through modeling parental aggression or through the development of an internal mental script or ‘working model’ of antagonistic interpersonal relationships. Background.
Children in extended families fared better, but their mothers fared worse than their nuclear family counterparts. Some extended families may also include uncles, aunts, and cousins who share the same household.
Usually, adult children move back in with their parents as soon as they start earning. Child supervision will improve, which may result in less delinquency and vandalism. When both parents are working to make the ends meet for their children, they do not find enough time to spend with their children. They also help their parents save money so they can buy their own house. Flowing with the child rather than against her or him seems to be the best policy for socializing cooperativeness and stability.
from the publisher's website.The effect of extended family living on the mental health of three generations within two Asian communitiesThe effect of extended family living on the mental health of three generations within two Asian communitiesBackground.
A new concept of three-generation housing is actually a rebirth of the pre-World War II practice of providing room for boarders within the existing house design.Three-generation housing concepts include the planning of architectural options to modify existing structures to increase apartment size or to provide for rental opportunities within one structure. Apartments may be modified or originally designed to allow for either upsizing or downsizing the number of bedrooms. and Mistry, M. (2000) The effect of extended family living on the mental health of three generations within two Asian communities.