The outlook of children in differing environments is forever warped by their parents to think that some traditions are completely normal, as seen in the “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. The people in the town unknowingly manipulate their children for generations into thinking that their so-said …show more content…
Shirley Jackson says this cycle of teaching will forever go on until an outsider decides to question the way the town does things. If a child is raised by their parents to be Catholic, from a young age all they would know is that religion and to have faith in God. Their religion, which was taught to them by their parents, leads their perspective to be shaped into the common morals taught by the Catholic Church. These morals would differ from someone else who was not raised by the ideals of the Catholic Church, and it would eventually cause ignorance when they realize that there are truly multiple religions in the world and not everyone is the same religion. In the Lottery, the children prepare themselves for the lottery by collecting stones (Jackson 1). A parent’s responsibility is to teach their children how the world works and how to survive in it. If parents teach their children that it is okay to murder one person a year in a systematic lottery, their children will be raised thinking that it is normal to murder someone. The child would not understand why their friend from another town does not …show more content…
The Development of Delinquency written by the National Academies Press discusses how children turn into criminals due to their parents (Institute of Medicine). The article explains that children who “use physical aggression to solve conflicts...are at high risk of being rejected by their peers, of failing school, and eventually of getting involved in serious delinquency” (Institute of Medicine). Physical aggression is taught to children by their parents. Everything they learn from birth to their first day of school is all from their parents because that is usually who they spend the most time with. If a child’s parents constantly argue and even get physical with each other, the child will begin to develop the perspective of violence in a relationship being normal behavior. The violence will be taken farther then in just their relationships but to them committing violent crimes, which can put them in jail for a good chunk of time or even the rest of their life. The influence a parent’s actions have on their child is strong enough to lead to their child’s eventual downfall in