Negative Effects On Family Relationships

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We come into this world through a family. Each family is different, family may not even mean blood-related to some children. Though blood is thicker than water, blood, genetics, and matching last names do not make a family. Relationships make a family what it is. A seemingly bad or dysfunctional family is comprised of unhealthy relationships formed through lack of communication and charity while on the other hand, a seemingly healthy or functional family is built upon healthy family relationships formed through compassion and support for one another; such family relationships are essential to a child’s healthy development.
The quality of every single relationship we form has an impact in every aspect of our lives, it even directly affects our physical health (Johnson 1). When we are children, the relationships we spend the most time developing and being altered by are those with our family. We are extremely vulnerable when we are so young because our minds and other parts of our body are still developing. This development is directly influenced by our environment, whether that is emotional or physical. Physical factors, such as diet, enact apparent changes on our bodies that can take the form of weight gain, scar tissue, or the like. The emotional factors are much harder to see in the moment. Often the effects of negative emotional factors are not seen until years later. One such negative factor, sadly seen commonly in families today, is that of chronic stress. Chronic

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