Sentences with phrase «adult parental figures»

When we first experienced the violations or wounds that caused us to experience these, we also reasoned with our youthful brains that we could never show the world, or ourselves, the horrible pain or the belief that a powerful force outside ourselves (adult parental figures) were wrong or uncontrollable.

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AD children usually seek to pit school versus home, in which typically makes the AD children consider their teachers as more preferred parental adult figures than their actual parents.

She noted that the very idea of parental control — of adults acting as authority figures — had fallen into disrepute.