Resolving family conflicts
1960; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/002200276000400206
ISSN1552-8766
Autores Tópico(s)Health and Conflict Studies
Resumotween the great powers of the world, can the ways in which families resolve their conflicts ever apply to international conflict? The present article deals primarily with the inherent characteristics of family conflict, some of them diametrically opposite to international conflict. Nevertheless, the study of small-scale conflict seems most likely to yield new hypotheses relevant to large-scale conflict if the family is studied on its own terms. Were we to limit ourselves to facets of obvious relevance, new ways of looking at international conflict might be missed. In any case, a general theory of conflict must eventually embrace all ranges of social systems, from the largest to the smallest. Hence family conflict has potential interest for its similarities with, and its differences from, large-scale conflict. Conflict is a widespread and serious problem in the contemporary American family. Roughly, one marriage in every four ends in divorce, which is usually preceded, and often caused, by the failure of family members to avoid or solve their conflicts. Many additional families survive their periods of stress only at great cost to their physical and mental health. Many a husband's ulcers, a wife's headaches, and a child's nervous tics are traceable to domestic tension and warfare. uction
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