The researchers said that a crucial next challenge for researchers will be determining why parent love influences children this way. The researchers hypothesize that when parents love one another, they are likely to invest more in their children, which leads children to stay in school for a longer period of time. The researchers found that children of parents who reported loving each other some or very much stayed in school longer and married later.
That is, the children and parents developed different types of love over time. These researchers have also studied mothers, who, when they were children, felt they were loved only if they lived up to the expectations their parents had for them. The children that I counseled through the years tend to be more self-confident when they experience a true, unconditional love from their parents.
When parents accept, love, and show affection for their children, even when they have made mistakes or fallen short of expectations, that is unconditional love. A parent does not have the natural genuine love that is the reflection of Gods Love for his children. God puts a needed love into parents hearts, giving them an amazing capacity to reflect the love that He has for us, and live out of that love.
God made children needing the love of their parents, and he is building the parents capacity to provide that love. When the word of God calls parents, love thy children, God is building into their hearts the capacity for that love, just as his word worked to create the world, just as his son, a man, brought life back from death to lazarus. Parents genuine love helps children to grow up with the identity of beloved children of God, ones with the ability and responsibility to share that love with others.
Our most important responsibility as parents is to ensure our children know how much we truly care for them and love them. Parents who really love one another need to take special care within the family to make sure their children know just how much they love one another. Yes, there is natural love, some kind of attachment all parents feel toward their children, seen in the things that they sometimes will do for their children.
The child’s love is more reverential, as opposed to the parents, who are more protective. A child’s family environment can also be happier when parents profess to love one another, so a child might be less likely to run away for his or her own marriage. Strengthening our child’s feelings of love from our parents in their primary years may have very positive effects on their emotional well-being, self-esteem, and on our relationships with them in the teenage years. Children who experience unreserved affection from an unconditional mother or fathers affection experience better resilience to stress, better health, stronger self-esteem, and better development of their brains.
