Coupling, Parenting, and the Presence of Others : Intimate Relationships in Communal Households / Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Others.

This study explored some of the impacts of the presence of others on the most intimate human relationships: those of couples and parents and children in communal households. The shift from essentially dyadic to larger group relations in the home adds a number of complex phenomena: audiences, alternative resources, coalition partners, interventions, and political jockeying. In each kind of relationship the primary tie may remain central for many people while they balance availability and responsibility to the others. There are both greater opportunities for wider intimacy, more ties, sharing of chores and responsibilities, autonomy, and egalitarianism and a series of new issues with which couples, parents, and children must cope. (Author)

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