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Family relations are very important for some people and I am proud to say that I also appreciate and cherish the relations that have formed in my family through several generations. These relations may be illustrated and comprehended with the help of communication patterns that are present in behavior of people. Actually, the communication approach to the phenomenon of family “reflects the belief that communication is “transactional,” which means that interpersonal communication mutually impacts each participant” (Galvin, 2010). All people are different and each individual chooses a behavioral pattern within an interpersonal context. Each act of communication reflects the nature of relations between people. As the genogram illustrates, my family is very large. Though almost all my grandparents are already dead (I have only one grandmother from my mother’s side), they had a lot of children and my parents are among them. So I am lucky to have many aunts and uncles. Actually our family is very friendly. My children are very close to me and my husband. We, in our turn, communicate with our parents very often and there is no atmosphere of misunderstanding and cold among us. My aunts and uncles are elder people and I do not see them very often. Our relations are not that close because both my mother and father are the youngest children, so there is a large age gap among my parent’s brothers and sisters. Still we have no broken relations in our family at all and our communication is based on such strong feelings as love, attention and respect.
There were some things that surprised me after I completed the genogram. I never actually realized how large my family is. It probably did not happen because we never tried to gather together at once. Still, now it is vivid for me that I am a rich person who is very happy to have so many relatives. Besides, another fact surprised me and made me come to certain conclusions as to my future life. My husband and I have only two children: a son and a daughter. However I realized that my grandparents had much more children than we do. So, I guess my husband’s and my social duty is to fill the gap in my genogram.
Using a genogram while working with people appears to be very important sometimes. Thus, having a genogram of a person you have to communicate with, you can at once define some psychological sides of anyone’s personality, just having a look at his or her family tree. Thus, you may get surprised at unusual or inadequate behavior of a person in this or that situation, but if you have a look at a genogram you may know that this person is an orphan and that may explain many things. Or, for instance, a person can have too many brothers and sisters – that may also have a great influence on his or her communication patterns. So, “the implications of models of child development also are examined and policy recommendations are considered in light of these diverse family characteristics” (Hanson, Lynch). Unfortunately nowadays there is a tendency in the modern society that less and less families remain nuclear. This is proven by an analysis of the contemporary data on the families in the USA (Implication for Child Development).