"Other People's Children":The Concept of"Parentification",Antecedents and Consequences
Parentification is a term involving a multidisciplinary field of re-search,which refers to a phenomenon in which minor children assume adult re-sponsibilities and exchange their roles with parents in family relations.There are two types of parentification according to function,namely,instrumental parentifi-cation and affective parenting.The antecedents of parentification include family socioeconomic status,parental characteristics and relationship problems,and so-cial environment and cultural factors.While parentification has a positive impact on a child's development in life skills and interpersonal skills,the daily experience of caring work that is beyond their capacity may exhaust the child's re-sources prematurely and have many serious negative consequences.We should let the parent-child relationship return to the right track and perform their duties,so as to ensure that parents and children can nourish each other and have a harmoni-ous parent-child relationship.
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