It is the impact of our parents and their history which shape us into the people we are today. Each family is unique within their values and ethics, and this is reflected upon the method chosen for the upbringing of their children. However, parents around the world use different strategies to reach the same objective. Parents hope to see their children succeed in life. Therefore, parent’s values change based upon their culture, their financial success, their religion, their values and morals. All this and more develop children in ways parents see fit, thus allowing the child to have similar thoughts to the way in which they see the world.
In some areas, there are unreasonable justifications for the way human beings are being treated. It is natural for parents to have multiple views upon methods of raising a child. The wearing of the burqa is seen as a religious practice to the Muslim community and to others respecting its significance; however it can often lead to other types of illness. American studies have shown that the wearing of the burqa had been linked to insecurity and depression. Nevertheless, it is just a way of fundamental Islamic men to prove their dominance with the imprisonment of these women underneath these cloaks. This goes to show how parents are the main role models in the happiness or depressing state of their children.
It is through equity that we see a true understanding and compassion for children, where conflicting views can lead to the same desired destiny. First they killed My Father explores how ‘living life to the fullest involves living it with your family’. In a time of great turmoil, it was the parents who acted for the benefit of their children. Most notably, the self sacrifice of the father, as his thoughts reveal that it was the only way to ensure his family safety for the longest time possible, showing that ‘succeeding in life’ in this time was simply to survive. Luong, the daughter and author