The Importance Of Family Communication

Family Communication can be categorized into two; verbal and non-verbal communications (Knox and Schacht 2010). Verbal communication, Linguistic, vocabulary, grammar, Paralinguistic, manipulation of speech. On the other hand non-verbal communication is ,physical and body language, facial expressions, eye contact, body movement, posture, touching and use of silence; timing during communication. Non-verbal communication is very often culturally determined. The individuals within a culture usually know the meanings of the non-verbal signals in their own culture. The same signals, however, they can have very different meanings in other cultures. Among family members verbal and non-verbal communication are ways of family communication that helps

According, (Oslon, 2000), by nature communication is important at every stage of close relationship, it also important among family members with its contents for the clarity of interaction. Families of different cultural group have core issues of communication among family members. These contents or core issues of family communication has its own importance among family members. Each members of the family communicated based on their contents or subject matter to agree or disagree among each family member. Because, there are different contents of family communication among mixed family from different cultural groups for the better understanding of family interaction it also among the family from same cultural groups. The contents may include, ways family communication, family relationship, sexuality, self-disclosure (open to each other), and socialization with respective family members or sense of belongings, financial management, cultural and language and family interaction, like child parent communication with relatives. All these are the focuses of the

Family Socialization issue

Socialization is another essential function and contents in the process of family communication both in the same and different family of cultural group (Keller, 1998). As, (Newman, 2006), mentioned the structural functionalist perspective point out that the fundamental task of any society is to reproduce itself, to create members whose behavior, desires. It also develop distinct orientation to social action which is characterized of families culture and society (Keller, et al., 1998) . These goals have corresponded to those that the particular society deems appropriate and desirable. According to Benokraitis;

“Through socialization children acquire language, absorb the accumulated knowledge, attitude, beliefs, and values of their culture, and learn the social and interpersonal skills they need if they are to function effectively in society