Parents and Children in Conflict

Nando Pelusi’s article, “ Parents and Children in Conflict” is a nontraditional view about

The assumed unconditional love between parents and their children. He points out that no one

can fully give that kind of love-and they aren’t supposed to according to evolution . His claims

that this creates a struggle between the children that crave attention and the parents that crave

a break; furthermore, he states that this is what possibly leads adolescence to the use of drugs,

alcohol, and attempted suicide for their parents attention.

I had never before believed that my parents needed or wanted to do anything more than

love and care for me as a child , and then I grew up. I realize now that my parents are amazing

for giving up as much as they did for me. I can also understand other children I knew as a child

whose parents were often bitter , and even worse , uncaring. I expect that some resentment

comes along with parenting, and I think that if young adults were given this information they