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A happy, well-functioning family has many common features, but a lack of conflict isn’t one of them. All family members will sometimes rub each other the wrong way, argue with one another and hurt each other’s feelings, sometimes seriously. But the features common to happy families are security, trust, and tolerance; gratitude and pride in one another; and the enjoyment that comes from being playful with one another.
There has been a lot of longitudinal research demonstrating that the strength of the bonds within the marital relationship and between parents and children is what affords people resilience when times are tough. Whether that’s lockdown right now, or fire, floods, unemployment, crime, mental illness; we are all going to have to deal with challenges and heartaches as we go through our lives.
However, children who have been brought up in secure, warm, emotionally responsive environments build a capacity to trust others, and to be comfortable both with providing and accepting support in their adult lives. This helps them to cope with life’s challenges, and to help others cope with them too.
There has been a lot of longitudinal research demonstrating that the strength of the bonds within the marital relationship and between parents and children is what affords people resilience when times are tough. Whether that’s lockdown right now, or fire, floods, unemployment, crime, mental illness; we are all going to have to deal with challenges and heartaches as we go through our lives.
However, children who have been brought up in secure, warm, emotionally responsive environments build a capacity to trust others, and to be comfortable both with providing and accepting support in their adult lives. This helps them to cope with life’s challenges, and to help others cope with them too.