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Loneliness in the Family

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Family studies provide important insights to the understanding of children’s and adolescents’ loneliness, given that the roots of interpersonal relations and loneliness experiences can be identified within this context. Children learn, construct, and experience their first social understanding in their families. They experiment basic interactions and intimate relations with their parents and siblings. They develop relatedness to their close and extended family system and structure their social identity. Within this context, they experience acceptance and rejection. They acquire close relations, and participate in angry conflicts. They struggle for love and develop trust. Indeed children learn about the complexity of relations in their family, and these early interactions provide them not only with the fundamental knowledge about relations, but also with vital experiences that will serve as the basis for their social growth and peer interactions.

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Margalit, M. (2010). Loneliness in the Family. In: Lonely Children and Adolescents. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6284-3_3

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