A family lifestyle refers to the way families interact with each other on a daily basis, as well as the things they do together and how they communicate. When you look at society as a whole you can see many different parent/child relationships, such as an involved parent/child relationship and one that is just a basic survival mode. By observing the different lifestyles I discovered that there are two main ones in society; the rich, affluent, affluent lifestyle and the relaxed, laid-back lower-middle class lifestyle. I grew up in a middle class lifestyle so I know how this can affect a family, however when I looked at the research and spoke to my parents I discovered how the affluent lifestyle also affects a child/parent relationship . My father said he believes that “most of the time there is a tendency for wealthier children to have a more distant relationship with their parents than children raised in a middle-class working family.” (Father) You can see that this statement is true in society when you look at the research because more affluent children tend to be raised by nannies and staff, so they don't see their parents as much as children raised solely by their parents. Their father always tends to work and the mother is normally busy with the social aspect of life. A child raised in a working-class family or country lifestyle has more interaction with his parents because everyone works on the farm or you are forced to see your parents' daily lives, thus making interaction inevitable. I know from personal experience growing up on a farm that I had no choice but to talk to my parents every day and our relaxed lifestyle made it easy to talk to them about things, thus leading to my strong bond with them today. Research shows that even if you grew up with low interaction or a toxic lifestyle, you can always transition to a happy, well-functioning lifestyle. Our