What We
All Long For – UNIVERSAL THEMES
PARENTAL
RESPONSIBILITY: We make such assumptions about parenting, about
what
children need, about what parents are responsible for doing. We
assume people choose to be parents, and in so doing, that they accept
certain responsibilities. Yet we know that the generation gap which
exists between parents and children works both ways too. The children
expect certain things from parents and are resentful when they do not
get them. The parents expect certain things from the children and may
attempt to use money and/or emotional manipulation to ensure the
children live up to the parental expectations. Unquestioned
assumptions about marriage, fidelity, parental responsibility,
gender, responsibility towards family, cause much of the stress for
these characters.
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