Effect of values on family relationships

Pages: 397-400
Sumaira Islam (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

Values as we all know play very crucial role in our family and society relationships, which further impact on our life, as every society and family had some set rules, norms for their members, values are important in order to live one’s life systematically, happily and to own a ‘feel good’ factor. Values are based on one’s experience in life and will impact on everything from which we are attracted to, one’s political leanings, one’s tastes, things we do in our spare time or that we have an interest in, our religious and social interactions, where we want to live, what we are passionate about and many more. Values work as boundaries which are our personal guidelines of what we are prepared to accept and where you have little or no bond. Values help us to know what is good (right) and bad (wrong) about life both in terms of morals and how one feels. The creation and teaching of a value system should be done with input from all the people who will be affected by it and especially it need to– be taken care families having children as they are the part of the unit which will also be affected by the value systems which further decides their relationships with their family as values help solidify a family unit and bring family together.