A lot of parents are not aware of the huge impact they have on their children. The time a parent spends with a child deeply affects how the child will interact with other children. Through quality time that is shared between a child and his or her parents, the child will naturally pick up on the parent's boundaries of what is right and wrong. These morals will be reflected throughout the rest of the child's life. When families go out to eat the children adapt to the table manners that the parents display, and when they are driving the children will someday imitate certain driving habits, such as road rage, that the parent demonstrates.

When the child begins to enter adult-hood, commitment issues are a common problem. Recently, I interviewed a student at the University of Kentucky. Her parents had been married for 20 years. Her father had cheated on her mother a couple of times with another woman. When her mother found out she was absolutely furious. However, she decided she was going to try to forgive him and make it work. They attempted to keep all of this a secret from their daughter and, at this point, the girl that I interviewed still hadn't known any of this was going on. A year went by, and her mother still could not get over what her husband had done. This past year when they told their daughter that they were going to get a divorce, they didn't feel it was necessary to tell her that her father had not been faithful. She was originally told that the divorce was for other reasons. She picked up on it anyway and was very mad when she found out what her father had done. She isn't as mad as she used to be though. She described i

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