Ethical Issues In Frankenstein

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One parent raises a child with an iron fist, but ironically does it with a perfect record of honesty; another parent raises a child with passivity and saturates their lives with lies; in this scenario, which one of the parents is right. Each culture in this world thinks that they have parenting figured out, yet we all can have bad kids that turn into bad adults.
As a parent, you have a huge role in creating the path in which your children will travel; they can easily be raised with so much love that it turns out to be an enabling thing because that child knows that in mommy and /or daddy's eyes they can do no wrong. What personality are you creating by spoiling them other than entitled individual? What have they learned from you letting them off the hook too easy when they mess up; a child who has no fear of any consequences to their negative actions will only grow to think that rules don't apply to them because of the non-consequential environment they were raised in, Maybe?
What happens when you compare the upbringing of a potential Frankenstein to someone who was raised in a strict, old school environment which included consequences, punishments, whippings, and sometimes beatings? (Yes, there is a very keen difference
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The male cousin gets beat to shreds, and gets no love and attention from his father or family, and ends up turning into a Frankenstein in waiting, as he gets older and is reminded of the occurrences we went through; the female cousin gets spoiled and she ends up getting married to a guy who beats her viciously , forces her to prostitute herself out of the back seat of their car, (which is coincidentally their home by the way,) and eventually causes her to have several psychological and emotional outbursts, and breakdowns, to the point of where the courts took her children from her permanently after charging her with abuse, and strangely enough cannibalism. Yes, I said cannibalism against her

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