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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. Read the rest of this entry »