Family crisis

     Family crisis can cause a family to lose relationship quality or gain it. This is one of the main concepts that I discovered this week in class. We had to study in depth what happens to families when unexpected circumstances occur to a family whether outside or inside forces.In doing this, I have been able to realize in depth how my own family has coped with different situations over the years. Growing up, we had to move to a different home in every year of high school. I ended up going to two different middle schools and three different high schools. It was a crisis situation most of the time- unexpected and unplanned. This week I have had the chance to look back and realize that my family coped with these surprise moves quite well. Rather than each of us becoming frusturated with the situation and trying to deal with it on our own, my family became extremely close in our relationships with each other.
      In different class discussions we had, I discovered that there were others that have endured serious trial and we discussed how some people do not handle family crisis well and hide in a shell rather than turning to those who are most important. Even  in the reading, it talked a lot about the children of alcoholics. It described how detrimental the situation is to their growing up years and there were statistics that revealed the negative impacts that this had on their future as well. It all comes down to how people handle these crisis situations. Every one is different and therefore reacts differently to circumstances.