What does Ellen White write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "Family relationships and conflicts. Is it advisable for multiple generations to live in one house?"
Answer
The presented quotations clearly warn of the challenges when multiple families or generations live in too close proximity or even together. Ellen White points out that this can hinder spiritual and mental growth, as personal family matters are transferred to others and privacy is lost. Small misunderstandings are unnecessarily blown up, and suffering arises from constant criticism and jealousy among closely related families.
Warning against overly close family proximity
»These brethren are hindered in spiritual and mental growth by remaining in a family community. It is not the best policy for children of one, two, or three families who are connected by marriage to settle within a few miles of each other. The influence is not good for those involved. One family's affairs become the affairs of all. The confusions and difficulties that each family must experience more or less, and which, as far as possible, should remain confined to the family circle, are extended to family connections and affect religious gatherings.«
Suffering through constant observation and criticism
»United as these families are through marriage and as they mingle in each other's society, each is vigilant for the other's errors and faults and feels obligated to correct them; and because these relatives are truly dear to each other, they become upset over trivialities that they would not notice in those who are not so closely connected. Sometimes petty jealousies arise, and molehills become mountains.«
Separation as a solution to conflicts
»These children do not get along when they live together. They are too similar to be patient and forgiving with each other. They are better separated.«
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