Offspring {children, family} continue family line, achieve immortality for parents, provide labor source, contribute to family survival, and are investments for future. Wanted children have parents that believe in their beauty, goodness, and creativity and believe that love and education can control children's energy, sexuality, and changes.
law
Parents must protect and support their children and educate them, in accordance with state law, until they reach majority. In some states, parents must send qualified children to college and pay their expenses, even past majority age. States can require support after majority if child has disability, has retardation, or cannot care for himself or herself.
Emancipation ends parental duties toward child.
Some states do not require that parents support children away from home, if they have consented to support them at home.
baby
Parents typically do not immediately feel love for newborn child. Loving and protective attitude develops through social interaction between infant and parents. Babies that are irritable, sick, difficult to feed, or hard to pacify can cause love not to develop. Parents can feel rejection if baby is unresponsive or seldom smiles. Infant behavior often makes parents feel inadequate.
In different cultures, babies can have schedules or immediate satisfaction, adults can talk a lot or a little to baby, and one mother or many women can tend baby.
first-born child
First-born child faces higher standards, has only adult models, has better world model, has high anxiety at second child's birth, and has more dependence, more guilt, more conformity, less aggression, more achievement, more sensitivity, less sociableness, and more carefulness.
youngest child
The youngest in family is typically the most-active and independent.
Before majority, child can marry, be in military service, or have full-time job {emancipation}|. Emancipation ends parental duties toward child.
Children can have chronic bed-wetting {enuresis}.
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