Maria, a mexican american woman, will live with her parents until she marries. a culturally competent and sensitive counselor will understand that

The answer is " this may be a result of gender-role expectations in Maria's family and not enmeshment."

Enmeshment is a term that depicts an obscuring of limits between individuals, commonly relatives. Enmeshment regularly adds to brokenness in families and may prompt an absence of self-governance and freedom that can become dangerous.