How could family members cause emotional disturbance in young children?
By being emotionally unavailable, unstable, or abusing. Families with two wage earners, both consumed by their careers and not willing to be sucked into child-rearing may be seen by young children as remote and unavailable. Adults whose behavior seems to be arbitrary can upset young children. Those who abuse children (physically, sexually, verbally) can hurt them. Most family members do not display these harmful behaviors. Sadly, however, some do.
