Many people influence us in our lifetimes, but there are no relationships more influential than the ones we share with our families. As a person matures, he or she models more those who have raised him or her. These maternal figures can serve as both positive and negative examples, and their relationships with us mold our psychological and social nature as we mature into adulthood.
Our natures are not only influenced by our parents, but also by our distant ancestors. Besides residual physical traits received from your family’s bloodline, such as a perfect skin tone or burdensomely wide hips, our ancestors indirectly affect our personalities. Etheridge Knight said in his poem “The Idea of Ancestry,” “I am all of them, they are all of me…”
Family and parents are the building blocks for a child’s life. With or without the family present, a child will continue to grow. But for smooth transitions from child hood to adult hood to occur, a positive parental power must be present. People are only a product of how they were raised.
In some unfortunate cases, the child must switch roles with the parent. Gloria Steinnem, in her novel/autobiography Ruth’s Song, described her experience of caring for her mentally ill mother. “She was just a fact of life when I was growing up; someone to be worried about and cared for…” Many single-parent children learn at young age how to be an “adult” such as Steinnem. This situation can lead a child to either security as an adult or insecurity.
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