family expectations
Relatives' hopes imposed
Family expectations are the standards, roles, and achievements that relatives—especially parents—assume or demand of family members.
These may include career paths, educational attainment, marriage, having children, or maintaining traditions: She became a doctor to meet her family's expectations.
The phrase often carries a sense of pressure or obligation, particularly when individual desires conflict with what the family envisions: He struggled under the weight of family expectations.
- pressureForce upon contact
- measure upMeet required standards
- dutyRequired moral task
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- obligationRequired task or commitment
living up to · honor · burden · legacy · achievement · success · disappointment · approval · conformity · guilt · shame · pride · ancestors · sacrifice · golden child · black sheep · marriage · settling down
- identityidentity, personal identity, self, selfhood, self-expression
- Family Relationshipsemotional support, caregiving, communication, generational conflict, elder care
- immigrant identityimmigrant experience, immigrant identity, dual identity, hybrid identity, hyphenated identity
- social codessocial norms, social norm, unwritten rule, unspoken rule, unspoken rules
- immigrant educationrefugee students, bilingual education, migrant children, language barriers, ESL
- mixed marriagesintermarriage, mixed marriages, interracial couples, interfaith marriage, mixed heritage
family expectationsself-determination
Control over one's fate
intrinsic motivation · self-actualization · personal vision · inner calling · societal expectations
family expectationspersonal freedom
Control over one's life
autonomy · individual autonomy · liberation · independence · unconditional acceptance
family expectationsnonconformity
Rejection of prevailing norms
rebellion · self-discovery · individuation · alternative lifestyle
family, families, familial, familiar, familiarity, familiarize, familiarization, unfamiliar, expect