Relacje rodzeństwa w rodzinie z doświadczeniem parentyfikacji – perspektywa biograficzna
Sibling Relations in Families With the Experience of Parentification. A Biographical Perspective

Summary/Abstract: The family is the natural environment in which every human being lives and develops. The phenomena and experiences occurring within it seem to be extremely important for the functioning of the whole system and the development of its individual members. This article addresses the issue of sibling relations in a families in a situation of reversed role order, i.e. when at least one of the children (brother or sister) takes over the duties and tasks ascribed to the parents. The adopted research perspective places the experience of parentification in the biographies of so-called adult children, who, in the face of various family difficulties, become caretakers and educators for their siblings, supporting or even relieving their parents in these tasks. The aim of the analyses presented in this article was to identify sibling relations in the context of a systemic understanding of the family. Role reversal implies a distortion of the boundaries between parental and child sub-systems. The analysis of the (auto)biographical interviews made it possible to reconstruct these family systems, sibling relationships and the consequences resulting from them.

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