The Journey Of A Person s Coming Of Age - 2293 Words

The journey of a person’s coming of age is influenced by many, many factors. Economic status, race, gender, geographic location, religion, and sexuality all play large roles in shaping our personalities and our experiences, but it really all comes down to one very important aspect. Family and the people we interact with. Those closest to us have the most influence on us. The decisions we make, the way we feel, how we act, even leading up to our personalities and how we answer the question we are always asked once we hit young adulthood, â€Å"Who are you?†; these all depend on who we surround ourselves with, what those people contribute, and what we take away from them. Different factors include the size of the family, birth order, support and†¦show more content†¦According to a March 1985 research article in ‘The Journal of Genetic Psychology,’ children of larger families are more prone to delinquent behavior.† Carly Seifert wrote the quote above in her article for GlobalPost, â€Å"The Family’s Influence on a Child’s Personality,† in which she briefly goes over and discusses different ways that certain aspects of family can contribute to how a child grows up and their effects how they become their own person. The quote can be very closely related the size of the immediate and extended family, not just the number of siblings. It is often seen that children who experience being around a large family, especially in settings such as high-occurrence family gatherings, have more evolved social skills and more knowledge on how to better create and keep healthy relationships. On the other hand, children who grow up around mostly adults have been more influenced by older family which gives reason to those children acting more mature than their peers as time goes by. While there are generalities in studies of different children being raised in different sizes of families, there are traits found in children that have a correlation to both extremes of family size. A larger family can often overwhelm children, especially if they are not eased into the massive groups of people, leaving that child more shy and introverted because that experience was too much for them to handle at the time. All I can remember is being shy, but there