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It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

Children are becoming disobedient... why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.