Many of life's basic, fundamental knowledge are learned as a young child. This crucial information is taught to this young child by a guardian, usually a parent. This parental figure plays an important role in a young child's life. The absence of the parental figure can have a detrimental effect on the young child's life as he or she becomes an adult. Parents shape their children's lives by modeling patterns of affect and behavior for …showed first 75 words of 712 total…

…showed last 75 words of 712 total…be passes on when this child grows up and starts a family of its own. The absence of parental teaching at a young age will have a snowball effect when the child grows older and enters the world at a later age. Works Cited: 1. Durrell, Doris E. The Critical Years. California: New Harbinger Publications 1984 2. Cataldo, Christine Z. Parent Education fro Early Childhood. New York: Teachers College Press 1987 3. Fagin, James A. Criminal Justice. Pearson Education, Inc 2003