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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

home, family living, family meal environment, FME, family life

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Family Life

Abstract

Family scholar Kerry Daly (2003) explains the need to examine aspects of everyday family activities that he describes as negative spaces. Two of these areas are time and space. The time and the space in which families do their work contribute to, and is the essence of, a family living environment. Aird (2002) also argues for the importance of everyday activities in the home and calls upon mothers and fathers to “create, protect, and defend the physical, emotional, and spiritual spaces” for the development of children. This study reports the development of an initial Home and Family Living Analysis (HFL-A) with specific emphasis placed on studying the family meal environment (FME). This inventory assesses how the structure, technology, and design of the FME interact and contribute to or detract from healthy family and spiritual relationships. It is similar to the H. O. M. E. Inventory (Caldwell and Bradley, 1984), which has been the basis of numerous scholarly articles about the simulation and support of the home environment to child development.

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