My parents divorced and remarried before I was five years old. Fortunately, I wasn’t wrenched from a stable home life, like many children with divorced parents, because multiple households are the only thing I can remember. My main problem, however, was coping with two drastically different parenting styles. An average Saturday at my father’s house consisted of three hours of yard work after breakfast before I could play with my friends. My mother let me sleep late, and if she had work for me to do, I could earn extra chore money. The disparity between leisure with one parent and labor with the other forced me to question my father’s decisions. My father believed in physical punishment while my mother utilized activity deprivation. For similar
