Parental Guidance

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This paper examines the emotional scarring that children undergo as a result of abusive or neglectful parents. It follows with a look at their lives and it concludes with specific examples of parental abuse and its impact on the children's lives as adults.

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"Anais Nin on the other hand went through different though equally disturbing experiences as a child, revealed in her book, Dairy of Anais Nin. She, like Nash, grew up in a family where father was the culprit. Her parents had an abusive relationship and fighting was a regular feature of their troubled marriage. He proved to be anything but a good father when he would openly make sexual advances to Anais and would regularly spank the children. Despite occasional periods of apparent tranquility, the family hardly ever felt harmony and real peace because Anais' parents would argue incessantly. This had a bad impact on Anais who it is believed developed psychological problems, as she often experienced bouts of depression, which she was able to overcome with the passage of time. Though her personal journals and dairies were received well by the public, she was nonetheless accused of lying in her diaries by some of her critics."

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