Topic > Family and multigenerational factors in development...

With the drastic changes that have occurred in family structure and sociocultural aspects, the modified family life cycle has brought a broader vision to include all possible contextual factors during development. The goal of the family life cycle is to investigate the impact of family development on the progression of time. The scholar also noted that the family across generations is like a system that brings with it the same stories and certain models in the emotional and relational aspects. Nature and patterns are passed down to generations through stereotypes, values, beliefs, taboos, expectations and problems. Scholars add a dimension of multigenerational influence to the family context in the form of vertical stressors (McGoldrick, 2011). The emotional subsystem in the family system is at play with the emotional development of both parents and the child. Multigenerational emotional transmission has become psychological inheritance. They were so unaware that it was like an invisible risk factor in the system. The adolescent and parents may be burdened with the baggage of multigenerational emotional patterns without knowing they exist. When parents came from functioning or dysfunctional families, they had their own unresolved emotional issues. It is unlikely that the parents had a role model in parenting duties in their family of origin. The parents were unable to fulfill the duty of parental functioning. The multigenerational emotional pattern simply disrupts parenting and family