Daddy Issues

The situations that are experienced as a child has a big impact on who a person become as an adult and how they can function in society. For example, the term “daddy issues” is used in the situation that a young girl is treated poorly by her father or abandoned and then grows up to be overly sexually active with other males. Children absorb what surrounds them and process that information and take it with them throughout the rest of their lives whether it be positive or negative. All of this arises the questions of how and why.
“There are the memorable little socialization moments when the members of a parent/child dyad are, for some reason, especially attuned to one another—when the child, perhaps by virtue of having encountered a new and …show more content…
Trust is the foundation to any relationship. Trust is built not born in any relationship. If you cannot trust the person(s) that are raising you and teaching you how to assimilate into this fast moving society then it would become hard to trust anyone in your life especially someone new. If a child witnesses a divorce due to a cheating parent it would be hard for that child to trust their own relationships as they grow older whether it be romantic or not. Not being able to have good relationships with people would then effect a person’s ability to succeed socially and economically through employment and personally. For example in the book Growing up with a single parent. What hurts, what helps. Says, “It shows how divorce, particularly with often-attendant drops in income, parental involvement, and access to community resources, diminishes children's chances for wellbeing. It is revealed that children whose parents live apart are twice as likely to drop out of high school as those in two-parent families, one and a half times as likely to be idle in young adulthood, and twice as likely to become single parents themselves.” (McLanahan & Sandefur, …show more content…
If a child or teen grows up seeing heavy alcohol or drug use they become accustomed to it and do not see it as wrong. The likelihood of a child wanting to try these substances increases. Along with that comes the chances of alcoholism and addiction. With that being said the actions of an abusive father or mother will affect the child more than most would think. In most cases Peer pressure and an addictive personality is the start of addiction in most teens, drugs and alcohol both. Most will see it being done with no harm but not know the long term effects. Teens from addictive parents could possibly be passed down the trait of an addictive personality. So when a teen with a possible addictive gene tries something for the first time he or she may want to continue to do whatever the drug may