The Effects of Growing Up in a Large Family

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What does it mean to grow up in a large family? In normal terms, it simply means to grow up with a lot of siblings. In our parents’ and grandparents’ time, large families were very common. In fact, a family with five children was considered small still. Growing up in a large family has its positive and negative effects; therefore, this essay will elaborate further on the different effects that come with growing up in a large family. The first positive effect of growing up in a large family is that you will rarely feel lonely. When one is in distress, one can be assured of warmth and affection given by the other family members. Other family members will be there for each other when a problem is brought up. For example, when one of the family members had broken up with her or his partner, other family members will take part to discuss and solve the problem. Therefore, he will not feel lonely in facing the problem himself because there is family support and family support is an important element in a person’s childhood. From my perspective, I think having a wide range of siblings is better because you will be able to share different experiences and also you get more knowledge from your other family members and not only your own opinion and knowledge. ‘Two is better than one’, as quoted in Ecclesiastes 4:9-16 talks about the results of how effective two persons’ work compared to an individual. Therefore, the collective effort of a group of people will make handling a difficult assignment or project more effective and efficient. Other than that, in a large family, doing house chores together would get things accomplished faster as the workload will be equally divided amongst them. As an example, in a controlled situation whereby the children have to do the household chores, a family consisting of one child compared to a family with 5 children, more chores can be done

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