Family Communication

Having a Child does Reduce Marriage Satisfaction

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18 Nov . 2008

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INTRODUCTION

Children should be source of happiness to a family , but that is not necessarily the case . The addition (or even removal ) of a person from a family may cause the family to require a lot of reorganization in to maintain its normal system [LeMasters , 1957 cited in Twenge , Campbell and Foster (2003 )] . The inclusion of a

new person into the family is usually a kind of crisis since it has to be supported by a reorganization of the family that would strive to restore normalcy while accommodating the new person . LeMasters (1957 ) likened the reorganization process to a crisis since it must involve making of concrete decisions to solve problems in old patterns of the family which become somehow insufficient with the incoming of a new parson especially a newborn

Insufficiency in a family due to the arrival of newborn arises due to several factors , which may be directly linked to the infant or indirectly affecting the parents . Nevertheless , babies at different ages have different requirements , and thus affect family systems in different ways

Twenge , Campbell and Foster (2003 ) noted that parents with children under the age of five years experience persistent lack of sleep due to the infants ' need for close attention particularly at night . In addition , such parents may also experience chronic tiredness , some form of guilt...