I have seen parents who use sarcasm and every kind of pressure they can bring to bear to change their children and force them into the pattern of which they approve. Sometimes I have seen parents make a tremendous effort to have their children become what they themselves had wanted to be and for some reason had failed to achieve. Or they may have a great, though unacknowledged, desire to hold the child close to them and, through the child, attain a sort of continuity with the future, and know their own work will be carried on. Sometimes they succeed, but at the cost of rebellion and the actual
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