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The way a child is raised by their parents represents how that childs future will look like. In Susans Griffins story, she describes how the events that occur in a childs life will shape how they act and the things they do when they are an adult. Also, she speaks of this during the time of World War 2. Secondly, in an article by the society for reasearch in child development the article highlights how being surrounded by alcohol and drugs will lead to a future with many down effects. Also that drugs and alchol effect your health and your mind, so it completely changes your entire persona which can rarely be fixed. Lastly in the article by the Psychological Bulletin they speak greatly about how everything from the school a child attends to the neighborhood they live in affect how the child acts like when an adult. These articles and my own experiences lead me to argue with the statement that the way children are raised and the things they are surrounded by really have a huge negative or positive impact in their lives.

Everyone experiences things differently throughout their lives. For example, as a child I lived in an enviorment without violence, drugs, or alcohol in the picture. Not being surrounded around those things made me an innocent kid because I was unaware of the negative things that are in this world. Growing up in a friendly neighborhood, going to a private school and high school, and having both of my parents around in my life trying to influence my life positively helped shaped my life positively because I'm striving to be just like my parents other than making some of the mistakes I veiwed them make as a child. Also, knowing that every decision I make will impact my child has to make me analyze every option becaus...

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...th eachother because at the end of the day that relationship could be the playing factor between whether or not your son or daughter is going to start to use drugs. Parents and families need to be more cautious around their children in order to prevent things like alcoholism, drug use, and violence to play a factor in their childs future.

Adutls need to become more aware of their surroundings and the things they around their children in order to protect them from dangerous futures. Keeping a positive outlook and building that comfortable relationship with children will help prevent alcholism, drugs, and violence in the futures of these adolencents. It is our duty as adults to prevent the future from looking so dim and dark if these children are being raised improperly, so we must change our ways as adults in order to make the future for thes echildren look brighter.