Parent-Child Relationship Essay Examples and Topics

There isn’t a specific way to raise children, although there are multiple attitudes a parent should avoid when taking care of their family. Insensate parenting may cause long-term consequences in a child, as they can grow up feeling neglected and disturbed. In Theodore Roethke’s poem…

For many years, growing up with a single parent children has been viewed as different. Being raised by only one parent seems impossible to many. The problem lies in the difference between children raised by single parents versus children raised by both a mother and…

Being a mom can be the hardest, empowering thing any woman can do. For others, they think it can be the worst thing in the world. Yes, there are advantages and disadvantages to being a single mom. In today’s world, there are numbers of children…

We must rely on the way we were brought up, specific cultural norms, and our feelings. When there’s bad behavior at a very young age that we don’t agree with, the first reaction might be a stern “no” followed by an innocent spank in the…

 Maus is a comic written by the American Art Spiegelman. It is divided into two parts: the first one entitled ‘My father bleeds history and the second ‘And there my problems began’. Maus is intimate, hard, sincere, and captivating work. The author himself, Art (‘Artie’),…

The novel, Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid shows how a young girl’s relationship with her mother changes as she goes through puberty. Annie John, the 12 year old girl, develops mentally and physically, but also starts to become distant from her mother who she has…

Love has a different meaning for everyone. Love differs and expresses in many ways. Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” and Peter Meinke’s poem, “Advice to My Son” shows that love can be expressed in different ways: guidance, understanding and sacrifices. Robert Hayden’s poem “Those…

When one boards the train of parenthood, there is no getting off. The journey through parenthood can be frightening as selfless and sacrificial love has to be rendered; and it is only when a child matures, and gains experience that their view of the world…

Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing” and Flannery O’Connor’s “Everything That Rises Must Converge” relay the theme of parental and child relationships within the family, using strongly developed characters to convey flawed relationships and the resulting impact upon each family member. Written during the time…

As your children get older, they are going to find new interests, some of which you know nothing about and really could not care to learn about either. If they are asking you hundreds of questions about things and you do not know how to…

I think that parents shouldn’t be criminally liable for their children. There are many reasons to why they shouldn’t be help criminally liable. The one reason that sticks out to me the most is that there are many type of family make up and I…

The purpose of this study was to examine how children are impacted by their parents that have a (SUD). In this study, the population examined are 22,200 adults aged 18 or older with a (SUD) with at least one child 17 or younger that resided…

Technology is the knowledge and skills available to many human society for industry, art, science, mathematics etc. It’s also the specific methods, materials, and devices that are used to solve practical problems. An example of technology is the internet which helps to gather certain information….

Social Control Theory vs. Self-Control Theory In recent years, numerous theorists have attempted to explain why people commit crimes, how to prevent this and how to decrease the recidivism rates. Everyone wants to live in a safe environment but many are not fortunate enough to…

Positive Reinforcement vs. Punishment It is common practice that when a child does something bad, they must be punished. Alan Kazdin, director of the Yale Parenting Center, is suggesting that parents learn to use positive reinforcement instead of punishment. He claims that this will yield…