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Exclusion of pre-adults from family decisions
Nature
Pre-adults are excluded from the family decision making process. They are regarded as possessions of their parents. The pre-adult years are regarded as non-productive and therefore children are exempted from responsibility for the family.
Broader
Possessive attitude of parents
Irresponsibility towards future generations
Simplistic family decision-making structures
Narrower
Parental domination of children's thinking
Related
Parental permissiveness
This problem is a member of 10 aggravating loops
Aggravates
Frustration
[in 4 loops]
Loneliness of children
Inadequate adult guidance
[in 2 loops]
Unshared family responsibilities
Unperceived interests of children
[in 4 loops]
Irresponsibility of young people towards the family
Aggravated by
Anxiety
Bereavement
Diffusion of family role expectations
Failure to recognize uniqueness of family members
Ineffectiveness of democratic consultation procedures
Reduced by
Child-headed families
Value(s)
Exclusion
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems