Pets in family system. Legitimacy, conformation and dynamics of human-animal families
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https://doi.org/10.24215/2422572Xe036Keywords:
companion animal, family dynamics, family, pets, systemic theoryAbstract
Although pet keeping has increased, it is not a post-humanism phenomenon, but it stems from prehistory. The recent increase in this practice seems to depend on a general attitudinal change towards animals. Currently, pets represent an ubiquitous characteristic of occidental family life, and the Systemic Theory turns out to be an outstanding perspective for its study. Rendering animals into family implies a bidirectional process, in which these play an active role. Pets have shared and particular roles. They adequate themselves to every family stage demand and contribute to both basic family functions: to keep cohesion and encourage the development. In addition, animals have a stabilizing and dynamic role, they being especially important during crises and their absence being able to destabilize the system. Finally, clinicians are given recommendations in order to include companion animals in their work with multi-species families.
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