06.06.07
Difficult Childhoods: Can We Trade in Our Parents?
The Washington Post’s “MyTime” column reported that in a California study, 75% of adults said that they had difficult childhoods. When a support group was asked what they would change about their lives – 20% of them said their parents!
Clearly, a lot of adults carry scars from their upbringing into adulthood. For many, those wounds are healed through new relationships as adults. But not everyone makes it – there are a few people who never recover from a difficult childhood and remain stuck in the muck of a bad past.
These findings serve as a warning to stepfamilies. Strive to do what is best for children, and help them grow up to be competent, and well-adjusted adults.
