Day: July 23, 2021

Consensual type: You will feel the pressure to have the same value views as your family and maintain the family hierarchy.  At the same time your ideas will be valued.  The children of this kind of family either follow the rules or escape into their own fantasies.  Generally, the parents of this kind of family are very traditional. They believe in “husband and wife”, “maintain loyalty”, mutual dependence and company, and they believe that their intramarital communication is easy-going and diligent management instead of frequent conflicts.

Pluralistic type: Ensure an open discussion atmosphere, and everyone can sit down and negotiate when making a decision.  Generally, the parents who create this kind of family hold non-mainstream values. For example, intimate relationships cannot restrict personal freedom.  This kind of parents not only accompany each other, but also have separate activity spaces and schedules (such as separate study rooms and bathrooms), and they don’t avoid conflicts, and they won’t avoid dealing with differences.

Protective: Obviously there will be an atmosphere of observing family rules and obeying parents, and it is unlikely that children are allowed to question their elders.  Children who grow up in such a family are easily influenced or persuaded by authority.  The three views of parents that shape this atmosphere are also very traditional. They value themselves more than intimate relationships, and they spend less time with each other and share, and believe that their intramarital communication is resolute, confident and persuasive, and they avoid marriage more.  conflict.

Laissez-faire: There is not much communication between family members, and family cohesion is also lacking.  Most family members are emotionally distant from their families.  Children raised by such families are more likely to be influenced by outside social organizations.  Parents who have shaped this family model cannot agree on marriage. They have different expectations of self-concepts, mutual dependence and inter-marital communication, so it is difficult to make the family cohesive.