The Family Environment.
The Family Environment.

Valences and Malfunctions

Summary/Abstract: The family is a dynamic system, which undergoes constant changes. Its members develop and evolve together, adding new elements that enrich their family life. The family system never remains the same; it changes from one moment to another, depending on the events that occur inside and outside the family. Our contemporary society is faced with the phenomenon of domestic violence, with the increase of extra-marital relations, consensual unions, divorces, the separation of the classical families. Children's reactions to such situations take various forms: affective (anxiety, depression, obsession, phobia, insecurity), characterological (aggression, detachment, over-sensitivity), cognitive (school performance failures), psychosocial (family conflicts, rebellion against parents, attempts to weaken the dependence bonds). The frequency of these familial and social phenomena is influenced by the industrialization and urbanization processes, by the increase of the education level and women’s emancipation, by economic causes, unemployment, poverty. Sociological studies conducted over the recent years have highlighted the frequency of an environment stabilized on tension and conflict, in family relationships. The most frequent forms of violence – this physical abuse to which one family member is subjected by another member – take place between spouses and between parent and child (children); child abuse (including sexual abuse) is explained by psychological and social factors and evidently by a lack of moral, religious education.

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