Practices of Intimacy of Children in the Family Home

Abstract

As the family home is a gathering place for the whole family and as it best expresses the ways of family communication, family cohesion, solidarity and the routine of family life, it is the family home that can reveal more about the practices of intimacy. The subject of this paper is the intimacy practices of children in the family home with the aim of revealing the influence of the spatial organization of the family home on the relationships between family members and intra-family dynamics. The basic research questions concerned the personal perception of intimacy, the ways of its manifestation, the experience of home and the relationship between personal and shared space, as well as the connection between space and emotions, which was contributed by the method of emotional maps.