Parental Involvement in Education

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This paper examines how the extent of parents' involvement in their children's lives can have a profound effect on their children's development. It looks at how, left entirely to his or her own devices, a child is prey to a wide range of malevolent influences and how, if this pattern of behavior is not stemmed early on, it may well become irreversible. It demonstrates how a proper education is probably one of the few accomplishments that can counteract the creeping development of these antisocial behaviors and how parents must become involved in their children's lives in order to insure that their children become fully-functioning, moral, and ethical adults, who contribute to and sustain the world in which they live. This argument is illustrated by using a hypothetical case of a troubled youth called John.

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Abstract
Introduction
Chapter I "The Situation at Hand"
Chapter II "Underlying Factors"
Chapter III "Breaking the Cycle of Failure"
Conclusions
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"A poor family relationship can have a deleterious effect on the development of the growing child. Sisters and brothers might fight with each other, argue and make fun of one another, and do other things that might be considered destructive to the development of a positive self-image. Similarly, neglectful or abusive parents can have a strongly negative effect on the child socialization and self-esteem. In the most serious of cases, the child might develop lifelong mental and emotional problems, or even dangerously antisocial or criminal characteristics."

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