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How does good parenting affect children?:

http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2009/sep/positive-parenting-can-have-lasting-impact-generations

The article says,

"Positive parenting can have lasting impact for generations" 

It explains how a good set of parents will help a child develop and learn properly and that as 

an adult that child will be a much a better parent

The quality of a child's parenting can dictate the rest of their life. Most children, by 

mistake or aspiration, grow up to be a lot like their parents. This is obviously because of DNA, however, it is also because of learned habit. Most young children do not know or see much outside of their home life. This means that whatever they observe becomes their reality and "the normal." This explains why a child who grows up watching his parents fight, argue and neglect will be a different adult than a child who grows up with supportive, endearing parents.

How does bad parenting affect children?:

http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/bad-parenting-affect-children-5074.html

The article says,

"Ineffective parenting adversely affects a child's psychological, social and behavioral

functioning."

The most common effects are behavioral problems, poor coping skills, academic problems, 

mental heath problems

These children are effected mentally for the rest of their life because of their parent's 

inability to raise them properly but what did the parents do to cause these severe 

problems? Two of the most powerful examples of bad parenting are neglect and 

(physical/verbal) abuse. Children who do not have a supportive adult figure as a parent 

often look to other adults for compensation. This can happen at school with a teacher, or 

coach, but many of the children living in Jackson Mississippi had maids to turn to for 

support.