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What is the ideal relationship between parents and children? This relationship should be more severe, parents imposing their terms automatically, or should it be a friendship? In the latter case, if the child benefit from parents' indulgence and do something stupid? I know that the situation varies from case to case, but I speak in general. My husband and I get ready to be parents again, we want to adopt for the first time, and therefore we want more opinions. So, what do you think?

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I think you must figure out the nature of parenting if you want to determine the proper relationship of parent to child. For me, parenting is the process of preparing a child for adulthood. The parent, thus, helps a child to become self-aware, long-range, independent, and rational. The two are not on equal footing and so the parent necessarily must assume some sort of authority at least in early childhood.

I've got a lot more to say about this and am presently preparing the outline for an essay on the subject. When the time comes, I'll post a link here.

Bill

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