Communication in Family Resilience

Family is the smallest unit in society to be a place for the process of learning and the formation of human character. Families with resilience will give birth to Indonesian people who are of high quality and competitiveness. Communication by family members will influence family harmony. This is because communication is very important to support the relationship between parents and children. Therefore, communication will provide a basis for family resilience. The study aims to see communication carried out by parents and children in the community in West Java, identification of the implementation of eight family functions, and family communication patterns to build family resilience. Research respondents in the first year were people in the city of Bekasi as cities that received child-worthy city awards. The number of respondents was 35 families consisting of father, mother and child, so that the total respondents were 105 people. The results of the study illustrate that communication between father, mother and child is well established. Respondent's family expands Equality Pattern between family members. Furthermore, the family in the city of Bekasi as research respondents have carried out family functions as a foundation for family harmony and resilience. The interactional communication pattern was developed by the respondent's family to build family resilience. Keywords—family; communication; family resilience