The home is the first and most significant agency that affects the life of a child. The unique power of the home stems from the fact that it gets a new human being first before any other
Institution has had a chance to make an impression upon him.
Dorothy W. Baruch made a study of relationship between the children’s personality adjustments and the marital relations of their parents. The following are factors in the inter-parental relationship which are significantly related to child adjustments:
- Tension over matters of sex.
- Problems of ascendancy-submission.
- Lack of consideration for each other.
- Lack of cooperation concerning upbringing of the child.
- Extra-marital relations.
- Problems of health
- Inability to talk over differences to mutually acceptable solutions.
- Insufficient expressions of affection.
- Tension over friends, work and relatives
These findings have shown that children reared in homes marked by family discord or parental misconduct are inferior in both personal adjustment and attitude toward the home, to children from homes characterized by confidence, affection and companionability.
By: Ricer B. Santoyo | Teacher III | MNHS-Cabcaben
