How family affects your behavior in school?

Learning in School Does Correlate with Family Types

(blog.estately.com)

When you get in trouble in school, is it you or your parent's fault?  It was about how family influence your learning.  Researchers from University of Rochester and University of Notre Dame studied for “three years looking at the relationship patterns of 234 two-parent families with 6-year-olds and found a distinct family-school connection, with certain family types predicting problems in school”.  They found that “families can be a support to children in the early grades or they can be a source of stress and distraction”.  They studied many types of people and were about to find “data that support the theory of three distinct psychological types of families”

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•COHESIVE: Characterized by emotional warmth.

•DISENGAGED: Characterized by cold, controlling and withdrawn relationships.

•ENMESHED: Characterized by moderate warmth and emotional involvement, but also hostility and meddling.

From these studies they found that “families characterized as disengaged had the most problems; they started out in school with higher levels of aggressive and disruptive behavior and had more difficulty focusing and cooperating” and also discovered “Children from families described as enmeshed entered school with no more disciplinary problems or depression and withdrawal than their peers from cohesive families, but later began to suffer higher levels of anxiety and feelings of loneliness and alienation”.  By the end of their study they found, “dysfunctional family relationships aren't responsible for all school behavior problems; other risk factors include living in high-crime neighborhoods, attending high-poverty schools and associating with troubled peer”.

I find it is interesting that they actually found and categorized the different types of ways parents treat their children and how that influences your education. I wonder if that means that your actions are not really directed towards people ar school but really from life at home. It really shows how you do not know how people's lives are. You cannot judge people for the way they act because it may be because of the parent. People's lives are very different from ours and we can't always assume what happens at home.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-07-15-familytype15_ST_N.htm

Do you think that the type of area where you live effects how your family treats each other?
Do you think race and ethnicity effects family relationship?