Questions of family, marriage, mental development of the family’s personality are always relevant for humanity. A person is born, grows up, and most of his life is inextricably linked with the family. Happiness and a sense of fullness of life largely depend on family relationships. Socio-political and economic transformations have given rise to many different problems, the most important of which is the formation of a personality and a new generation in a changing society. Negative factors of the social and natural environment cause an increase in deviant forms of behavior in children and youth, an annual rise in crime, drug addiction, and suicide among children and youth of all age groups. Currently, the modern family is going through a difficult stage of the revolution – the transition from the traditional model to a new, modern one.
The types of family relationships are changing. Many researchers characterize the current state of the family as a crisis (Levy, 2017). This is due to the objective processes of marriage and family relations in all economically developed countries in the system of systems, which entails a decrease in the birth rate, an increase in the number of divorces, and an increase in single people.
One of the most important factors influencing a child’s self-esteem is family structure. This problem is also very relevant, as in the absence of one of the parents, children feel humiliated, unprotected, and deprived, which also negatively affects self-confidence. Children with one parent are the objects of ridicule and lead a closed life. These phenomena, of course, negatively affect the self-esteem of children. In an incomplete family, children do not feel protected entirely, including loved ones. Parents raising children alone do not show embittered. They do not show the love and care necessary for the child, which leads to the formation of a feeling of weakness, insignificance, and loneliness.
It can reduce the child’s self-esteem to the limit and cause irreparable harm to psychological health. All of the above adversely affect the development and formation of the child. Mental development is continuous, and the child, like every person, needs self-preservation, protection, and self-improvement. At the same time, his system of relations with himself and those around him is formed.
In the modern family, not only individual functions change. The lack of emotionally personal family members with children who are engaged in adult family members’ official employment is the cause of the children’s loneliness, despite his life among relatives and friends.
The family, with its value orientations, peculiarities of interpersonal relations, all ways of life and style of life, directly or indirectly, to a greater or lesser extent, not only influences the formation of the child’s personality but also prepares the child for his future family life. In this regard, there is no doubt about the inclusion in the life of family introduction to work, participation in the preparation of family holidays, and joint leisure. Upbringing in the ability to be attentive, caring, to understand the mood of loved ones, and the upbringing of such high-quality children is the preparation of children for life in society, for fulfilling the functions of parents in the future.
Parents and family structure have a primary influence on the formation of self-esteem in children. Depending on the model of upbringing, self-esteem can be formed both positively and negatively. Parents need to develop adequate, positive self-esteem in their children, as with negative self-esteem. In this regard, it is necessary to comprehensively take care of the child, emphasizing his desire to be independent, at the same time to him about the possibility of self-improvement and an adequate assessment of his merits and demerits.
Reference
Levy, M. J. (2017). Aspects of the analysis of family structure. Aspects of the analysis of family structure (pp. 1-63). Princeton University Press. Web.