A Global Perspective

I grew up in a home where we all visited my grandparents. They took care of us as much as they could and we took care of them. As things got harder for my grandparents to do we all took charge and stepped up to the plate to help them as much as we could. Not all families are like this, whether they can help it or not. Taking care of our elders can be different from culture to culture. In Berger 2011, it states that looking into many cultures families can be destructive as well as helpful to emerging adults. In some cultures like British emerging adults that they were less happy if their parents were too intrusive. There family is there to remind them of the things that are becoming tougher for them to do. In my family we always make jokes about emerging adults in our family. After reading about all of these things I realize that maybe this shouldn't be done. An example would be always making old man jokes to my dad. This probably always reminds in about his emerging adulthood. Each culture cares for their emerging adults in different ways