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A child's best protection against everyday stresses and strains is to be able to count on love and security in the immediate surroundings of home. But relations between children and their parents, being a series of ongoing mutual adjustments and adaptation, can themselves be fraught with stress, on both sides.
In particular, parents who have themselves experienced unstable childhoods or broken homes may find it difficult to adapt to becoming parents themselves. Or, for one reason or another, parents may not be able to spend as much time with their children as desirable.
Antagonism may arise if a parent does not particularly like one of the children, or has a marked preference for one child above the others. Such a situation is not uncommon, and certainly the stress of it can be greatly relieved if parents are prepared to face up to the fact, and perhaps consider some professional help in this respect: some useful contact organizations, for example Exploring Parenthood
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