ISU BLOG POST #5

article: http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/positive-negative-influences-parents-children-6070.html

I believe this article has a really strong message that relates to the social issue of my book which is negative family relationships. This article does discuss some positive influences that parent's can be in their child's lives but the section of this article that i would like to discuss as it relates the most to my book is "Bad Habits". In this paragraph, it is said that a child of an alcoholic is four times more likely to become one after seeing the behavior of their parent's. The same is said for a cigarette addict's child. This article relates deeply to the social issue of my book because Jeanette's father, although a brilliant hardworking man when sober, turned into an unrecognizable monster when he was drunk. Jeanette had always been worried growing up about how that would affect her younger siblings, and how they would grow up and turn out.Therefore, my book and the article share the same similarity over the social issue of my book.