Moving and Family Relationships
Family Relationships
Each year thousands of Americans move from city to city, state to state, and in some cases to countries abroad. Chasing American Dream is to force people to migrate. Such a movement has its side effects, some good and others not so good. On the downside, moving on the price of social well-being of the traditional American family.
Two or three generations of family living together in the same house or same city includes traditional American family. This model is still prevalent in rural America, but has become scarce in the cities. Improved economic prospects in states other than the original residence is forcing Americans to make a difficult choice. These options include walk away with a negative effect on their families. The oldest of a family that is most affected when a decision to move is taken. This decision usually involves leaving the elders. This results in a sudden loss of familiar social family circle, an empty nest syndrome that has deleterious effects on mental health of the aged. Families move sometimes decide to put their elders in old age homes and institutions for the aged, so to concentrate on their ambitions. Such a move is difficult for some elders to handle and they get depressed.
It is not only the oldest affected. Absence of grandfather and / or grandmother has its impact on the children too. The young people lose the ability to absorb the traditional values and lessons of life, which can best be resolved in a time-tested oral tradition.
Moving to a new place is never easy on the pocket. The relocation involves a careful treatment of the budget and various insurances. A move overseas requires far more careful financial planning than a training move. The financial health unitary families are also affected. The Childrens must move could be financed by the parents thus increasing the load. The children on moving get busy with their own lives and thus the established social fabric also undergoes pressure.
Intra-family and social relationships are affected by migration. Relocation means in most cases, leaves a part of the family, which requires a vacuum to be filled. If this vacuum is filled by a suitable role model, children can fall into bad company, and also may require psychiatric help at a later date. Why are the Americans going into a psychiatric counselor in increasing numbers? The answer probably lies in disarray caused by the collapse of the American family social structure – a possible outcome of migration. So should we as Americans reconsider the way we have been, or continue to chase the eternal rainbows – that is the question that must respond.