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Parents, parenting, and family breakdown
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Most couples undertake the serious business of parenting with the belief that they will be able to provide their children with emotional and financial security. The major shifts in family life associated with social and economic changes have made these goals much harder to achieve. An increased emphasis on the desire for individual fulfilment may result in parents making decisions which they hope will improve their own lives, but which their children do not always view as positive. There have been frequent and simplistic attempts to explain the growing insecurities shown by children in educational and social settings simply by blaming changing family structures. Paediatricians, when faced in practice by children presenting with a range of difficulties, will be well aware of the wide range of influences at work in producing "symptoms" or aggravating an organic disorder.
The media, in its crusade to explain family values in language that
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