Preparing for marriage and family life
Marriage is the central institution of social life, and will vary as society as varied. Children adopt the ideas and ideals about marriage that are prevalent in their society. Marriage has a strong family basis. The accomplishment of this task is largely dependent on family factors which the school cannot influence directly (Havighurst, 1953). The best preparation for marriage and family life is the successful accomplishment of two of the developmental tasks previously described: achieving satisfactory relation with age mates of other sex and achieving emotional independence of parents.
Under Indian cultural set up, the pattern of socialization for males and females is different. In Indian culture during …show more content…
Because of these reasons the participants experienced maternal incapability, over dependent mother, unconcerned family atmosphere, mother’s apprehension, prejudice and pessimism. Most of the participants in this study reported that their disinterest in a marital life. Some participants described their troublesome and unhealthy family atmosphere which discouraged them to think positively of a marital life in the future. Feeling of embarrassment as a result of stigma associated their mothers’ mental illness, they experienced isolated from their peers, neighbors and society. They blamed themselves for their mother’s difficulties, and experienced anger, anxiety and uncertainty about the future. A study by Murphy, Peters, Jackson and Wilkes (2011) done on similar to this study found that parentification, feeling of isolation, lack of support by external familial relationship, devaluing of self, worry and blocking emotions as the result of parental mental …show more content…
This societal biases still continuing in Kerala society, and schizophrenia is one of the most strongly stigmatized disease. In the context of Kerala, it is difficult to have marriages in the family if there is a mentally ill family member especially parental mental illness. Stigma was experienced in the form of humiliation in the school and public places, others making bad comments of them related to mother’s illness (daughter of a mad woman). Demeaning comments from outsiders caused to reduce the chance of their marriage and it greatly affected the preparation of future life. These findings are supported by other studies which showed that the reflections of stigma are known to be the most dominant among family members living with a person having mental illness (Phelan, 1998, Power et.al,
Marriage is the central institution of social life, and will vary as society as varied. Children adopt the ideas and ideals about marriage that are prevalent in their society. Marriage has a strong family basis. The accomplishment of this task is largely dependent on family factors which the school cannot influence directly (Havighurst, 1953). The best preparation for marriage and family life is the successful accomplishment of two of the developmental tasks previously described: achieving satisfactory relation with age mates of other sex and achieving emotional independence of parents.
Under Indian cultural set up, the pattern of socialization for males and females is different. In Indian culture during …show more content…
Because of these reasons the participants experienced maternal incapability, over dependent mother, unconcerned family atmosphere, mother’s apprehension, prejudice and pessimism. Most of the participants in this study reported that their disinterest in a marital life. Some participants described their troublesome and unhealthy family atmosphere which discouraged them to think positively of a marital life in the future. Feeling of embarrassment as a result of stigma associated their mothers’ mental illness, they experienced isolated from their peers, neighbors and society. They blamed themselves for their mother’s difficulties, and experienced anger, anxiety and uncertainty about the future. A study by Murphy, Peters, Jackson and Wilkes (2011) done on similar to this study found that parentification, feeling of isolation, lack of support by external familial relationship, devaluing of self, worry and blocking emotions as the result of parental mental …show more content…
This societal biases still continuing in Kerala society, and schizophrenia is one of the most strongly stigmatized disease. In the context of Kerala, it is difficult to have marriages in the family if there is a mentally ill family member especially parental mental illness. Stigma was experienced in the form of humiliation in the school and public places, others making bad comments of them related to mother’s illness (daughter of a mad woman). Demeaning comments from outsiders caused to reduce the chance of their marriage and it greatly affected the preparation of future life. These findings are supported by other studies which showed that the reflections of stigma are known to be the most dominant among family members living with a person having mental illness (Phelan, 1998, Power et.al,