This paper explains that social forces at play in this family demonstrate the challenges to individuals to maintain a social
and cultural appearance of respectability and
control in times when their own personal control is very limited. The author points out that the family's size, nine
children soon to 10, is an extreme dynamic of the family. The paper relates that, due to the relatively young age of the children, the oldest being 12 and the youngest yet to be born; the limitation of the older children to care for the younger children is reflected in the family and the strain on the parents; the children also interact almost exclusively with one another and have very few outside friends.