According to psychology studies, aunts are very important to the unconscious family structure and help strengthen those ties we take for granted, such as family secrets.
Unlike the parents, the aunts manage to create a bond associated with friendship, since discipline is not part of their primary tasks with their nephews; instead, they manage to establish bonds of trust.
Aunts usually tend to take care of their sisters’ babies very lovingly and for many little ones they become a second mother figure, who, over time, begins to transform into a friend.
Will aunts outnumber grannies as best second moms?