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There are tons of children in the world who grow up without
parents. Some turn out better than others, but most of the children do grow up
with parents. However, just because they have a parent, it does not mean that
they will grow up to be stable adults. If they have parents that provide
safety, financial security, and emotional support then the kids have a higher
change to be a healthy happy individual when they grow up. However, that does
not mean that children who don’t have the safety, financial security, or
emotional support from their parents, to turn out bad. They have the same
change as any other kid who had a parent. Because, children do not need safe,
loving, supportive parents in order to be a healthy happy individual. However,
they just need parents who can put some food on the table, as their little
contribution to their kids who are fending for themselves.
The first reason as to why growing up kids do not need
supporting parents is because the author of Glass Castle memoir, Jeannette
Walls is “living on Park Avenue” (Walls, 4) in New York City which is very
ostentatious. She as obviously made a great career out of her writing and now
has something permanent, something that she never had as a child. Meaning, she
traveled around so much that she never had a home just a place to sleep at
night when she was little. So far in the book she had outstanding literature
skills and wanted to become a reporter because, she “wanted to be one of the
people who knew what was really going on” (Walls, 204).
The second reason as to why growing up kids do not need
loving parents who support them with financial security is because Jeannette
Walls grew up around parents who didn’t do either of those important things.
Her parents didn’t see a problem in letting a three-year-old cook on a stove
and almost burn herself to death, or having their family driving around the
country in a crappy car that they got and no money besides what they have in
their pockets. The Walls family has been in and out of poverty throughout Jeannette’s
years of growing up, and she realizes that she doesn’t want to always wait
around for the next pay check because she know that her father would just take
it for beer and cigarette money. This especially got serious when Rex Walls
took Lori’s New York money that she, Jeannette, and Brian have been saving for
nine months. Lori then started to worry that she would “never get out of Welch”
(Walls, 229), but Jeannette had to encourage her because she knew if Lori never
got out of Welch, then neither would she. The reason why all the Walls kids
wanted to leave so badly is because they were not giving the loving,
financially supporting parents that they wanted. When Lori first decided to
leave she would never change her mind; Jeannette was the same because she
wanted to live her own life and not the one that she would be trapped in if she
never left.
The last reason as to why you don’t need parents who keep
you safe or provide emotional support is because in the book Glass Castle,
by Jeannette Walls her parents did just the opposite. They thought that
learning the pains of the world on their own was what they needed to do. For
example, the father of Jeannette thought that it was time for his daughter to
“sink or swim” (Walls, 66), when she was first learning how to swim. This is a
great example of parents who don’t care about safety, because if Jeannette did
not swim then Rex would of not saved her in time, this was her first experience
with questioning her father and his ways. Also, this took a toll on her emotions
towards people because another example of how Jeannette had unsafe and non-supporting
for her personal needs (emotions) is when Rex Walls used his daughter to help
him win money. This showed that Rex was a parent who didn’t care about his daughter’s
safety because he let some random guy take his little girl up to his room when
he knew what they were going to do. She was “not that kind of girl” (Walls,
212), and her father knew that.
It is sad to know that some kids grow up with these kinds of
parents who don’t provide any safety, financial security, or emotional support
for their children. Even though it makes more sense for the children to grow up
to become health happy adults with those three aspects form their parents. However,
Jeannette Walls has proven that you don’t need safe, loving, supporting parents
in order to become a healthy happy individual. She has become very successful
in her life, and she came from nothing. She escaped the life that she never
wanted to grow up in. Jeannette Walls proved that it is possible to make
something out life without the bad parents holding life, at bay.
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