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Did the corona really spoil our families?

In recent months we have dealt extensively with the impact of the corona plague and prolonged closures on children, parents and relationships within the family.

Now a new survey reveals that despite the hard feelings that accompanied us this year, some good things also happened

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Friday, 12 February 2021, 07:04

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Happy Family Day for those who celebrate :) Illustration of a family with masks (Photo: ShutterStock)

The past year has been very challenging for families.

It does not matter if you are a parent of toddlers, children of primary school age, adolescents or both - the corona year presented everyone with difficulties and struggles that we did not expect to come to our door.

In recent months, we have dealt quite a bit with the impact of the corona on the Israeli family, which at times seemed dramatic and destructive, but now a new survey reveals that contrary to the feeling that accompanied us this year - quite a few good things happened.

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On the occasion of Family Day which took place today (Friday) Adler then conducted a survey to examine how the plague actually affected our family cell.

While some of the survey findings are certainly indicative of a grim Corona reality, and we’ll get to that right away, there is also good news - in 41 percent of families the sibling relationship has improved since the Corona.

In addition, for most parents (78 percent) who were fired or expelled, parental ability was not impaired or even increased. Parental ability is, among other things, the ability to provide for the child's developmental and psychological needs.

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But as mentioned, Corona also had difficult consequences for the Israeli family.

The survey findings show that 65 percent of parents feel they are able to help their children overcome the crises created by the corona in moderation and below.

At the same time, 49 percent of families claim that the children's emotional state has worsened following the corona.

The survey also shows that 23 percent of the Corona families were helped more by external factors in the field of parenting and the family, more than three times those who reduced the receipt of help from external factors.

Relationships between siblings have improved, their mental state - less.

Embracing brothers (Photo: ShutterStock)

And what about the emotional state of the adults in the family?

The survey shows that Corona has increased the desire to divorce among families, more than the minor (14 percent versus 10 percent of respondents), possibly due to economic hardship, as about 30 percent of families said economic stress hurt home relationships.

Fifty-three percent of the parents testified that failure to observe precautionary measures during the spouse's corona period provoked quarrels in the family to one degree or another.

In addition, about 48 percent of the corona couples harmed the couple's quality time together.

About a third of the married couple Corona has had sex.

Feeling alone.

Grandmother and grandson (Photo: ShutterStock)

Lian Sela (Photo: PR, Yuval Chen)

Grandparents have also been hit hard in the past year, 92 percent of grandparents are sad that they have been given free time without grandchildren.

About a quarter of grandparents feel that they have been neglected by their families to some degree.

"The dizzying pace of change that erupted into our lives with the corona crisis has brought the family unit to a metamorphosis. "She turned to the institute for help and experts from the family field, and there is a significant increase in requests for guidance and digital therapy in light of the crisis." For a situation of life at risk. "

The survey was conducted by Ipanel, among 500 interviewees, parents of children up to the age of 18, and grandparents of grandchildren, from a representative sample of the adult population who speak Hebrew in Israel.

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