I began to wonder how each parent had reacted to each individual trial of the past decades. What impatience, frustration, anger, helplessness their children had witnessed in them, in the people who were supposed to be their unassailable protectors. Every time they watched their parents fail, I believed, their feeling of security in the world and their place in it was eroded. On top of this, every faulty impulse, every bad habit, every prejudice their parents carried, the children would inherit.
