What are the causes of faulty parental attitudes like over protection and rejection of children?
Hi Geyamala, Perhaps the best explanation for how people fulfill their roles as parents has to do with how they were parented as children. We tend to use our family of orientation as a template for how families work, including how parents should raise their children. This can work in a couple of different ways. We often simply do as our own parents did when raising us. Being overly permissive or using corporal punishment for example tends to be copied from generation to generation. In extreme cases we may go in the opposite direction. Children who were raised in an overly strict fashion may raise their own children in an overly permissive way to try to avoid the mistakes they feel their own parents made. Beyond our family of orientation as an influence, popular media and fashions in child rearing can have a big impact. Dr. Benjamin Spock wrote a famous child rearing book which influenced a generation of parents. In recent years critics of his work have often misrepresented his child re
