Looking Beyond Adult Interpretations: Views of Children

The review "Images of the Family: a study of children's perceptions" written April 2002 by Laura Firth looks at how children perceive what a family is. The article clearly captures a simplistic view of family. The writer understood when starting, that little research had been done on this subject. Most of the knowledge of family came from research done from others studies on parents, psychologist, social workers or adult recollection of their own childhood experience. An …

…and mutual respect." If done differently in her previous hypothecs, she would have added a specific difference between the various cultures and backgrounds, giving way to multiple perceptions of how is family the structured in terms of the roles relationships within it. She concludes by stating that family as a social intuition is changing by it structure and functional means. In all, the children as now considered the innovators in the new perception of family.