The Role of the Family in Human Life

“Love for the moth­er­land begins with the fam­i­ly” — these words, once said by the philoso­pher Fran­cis Bacon, clear­ly show what a big role the fam­i­ly plays in the process of becom­ing in soci­ety. Giv­en that a per­son is a social being in itself, it is easy to guess that it is the fam­i­ly, as the small­est unit of soci­ety, that is the basis for fur­ther rela­tion­ships with the whole sys­tem.

How­ev­er, the role of the fam­i­ly in social­iza­tion, which, as you know, is a life­long process, can hard­ly be over­es­ti­mat­ed. The fam­i­ly is our first soci­ety. We spend the first years in it, dur­ing which life val­ues ​​and pri­or­i­ties are laid, as well as the norms of social behav­ior are formed. The first three years of the for­ma­tion of a per­son, as a per­son, takes place sur­round­ed by a fam­i­ly. And it is the roles of fam­i­ly mem­bers that are the main start­ing point of human social­iza­tion, where the “first vio­lin” is played by par­ents, as well as those who sub­con­scious­ly took on this role. So, for exam­ple, in some dys­func­tion­al fam­i­lies, chil­dren receive more care from oth­er fam­i­ly mem­bers (sis­ters, broth­ers, grand­par­ents). Our fur­ther demands on the world and the future often depend on what kind of rela­tion­ships we have in the fam­i­ly. More­over, the influ­ence of the fam­i­ly is in all cas­es, whether it is pos­i­tive or neg­a­tive rela­tion­ships.

The role of the family in the life of a modern person

The main trend that can be observed today, and which is a side effect of the tech­no­log­i­cal rev­o­lu­tion and the accel­er­a­tion of the pace of life, is the detach­ment of the fam­i­ly from edu­ca­tion as such. Busy par­ents ear­ly give their chil­dren into the hands of nan­nies, kinder­garten teach­ers, to the world of com­put­er games, tablets and phones. The child spends his leisure time not with his par­ents or friends in the yard, his plan­et is immersed in the world of lone­li­ness and vir­tu­al real­i­ty. Despite this, even a “hole” in com­mu­ni­ca­tion is formed into cer­tain norms of social behav­ior for each per­son. In addi­tion, researchers talk about a grad­ual change in the mod­el of the mod­ern fam­i­ly, and hence soci­ety as a whole.

Tra­di­tion­al val­ues ​​are grad­u­al­ly giv­ing way to new ones. An increase in the num­ber of divorces and a low birth rate against the back­ground of an increased birth rate out of wed­lock, that is, the ini­tial entry of a child into an incom­plete cell of his first soci­ety — all this plays a role. Despite this, fam­i­ly edu­ca­tion tac­tics fam­i­ly edu­ca­tion tac­tics remain almost unchanged:

• first — this is a dic­tate when adults sup­press the desires of chil­dren, cut­ting off any, in their opin­ion, devi­a­tions of the child from their views, like a branch gar­den­er, shap­ing his per­son­al­i­ty in his own way;
• The sec­ond type can be char­ac­ter­ized as coop­er­a­tion. This is a joint devel­op­ment, activ­i­ty and pas­time. In this case, the role of the fam­i­ly in the life of a small per­son can be called the most healthy and cor­rect;
• guardian­ship. Chil­dren raised in hyper-cus­to­di­al con­di­tions are usu­al­ly called “hot­house” chil­dren. Par­ents try to pro­tect their child from the real­i­ties of the world, which they con­sid­er hos­tile. In this case, the child devel­ops either an ide­al­ized atti­tude to the world, and he becomes absolute­ly help­less, or there is a desire to plunge into all that “dirt” from which his par­ents pro­tect­ed him. As a protest
• non-inter­ven­tion tac­tics. Par­ents do not inter­fere in the prob­lems of the child, believ­ing that such an approach will give him inde­pen­dence and teach him to nav­i­gate in adult life.

What­ev­er par­ent­ing style par­ents choose for their child, they should remem­ber that a child comes into this world in order to teach us, to show our inter­nal prob­lems, reflect­ing them like a mir­ror. There­fore, it must be remem­bered that the fur­ther life of the child in soci­ety depends on the cli­mate in your fam­i­ly.