ABSTRACT
The parents’ well-being is crucial to the development of the entire family. If the parents pollute the space and the air with their bickering, mutual criticism, silence, absence, or anger, their children need to find ways to learn how to behave in this compromised and loveless atmosphere. Most children live with their biological parents. This is probably surprising, since there is a tendency to focus on the divorces, the single parents, and the children living in blended families as opposed to the nuclear family. Much research into human growth and development confirms that in this day and age more children than ever before are thriving. A wide range of experience and research confirms that calm acknowledging intimacy is the basis of all development of the emotions and the brain in the infant as well as in the adult. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
