In a tribal setup, family plays a key role. It is the center of the entire social life. In fact, it is considered responsible for all sort of nourishment that a person receives. Moreover, different individuals are also linked to their families in various ways. If they are able to achieve something marvelous, and they become successful people in their lives, their families are praised, particularly, their parents. However, if they fail to become successful individuals in life and some of them are caught in the web of crimes and antisocial activities, again their parents are held responsible. This sort of thinking is, however, very narrow in certain ways.
It is, therefore, essential to see the phenomenon in a greater detail with open mind. As a matter of fact, the development of a personality is highly dependent on various institutions; from family to political system, there is a long list. Yes, the family is the basic one but the institutions like schools, social, cultural and religious institutions and ceremonies, offices, sports and others have their undying influences. All these institutions have different practices and there are different personalities in them that imprint their marks on a person psychology. It is difficult to say that a particular behavior within a person is the outcome of the family or the parents alone as there are different factors involved at the same time.
Parents’ nourishment – their care and their neglect have influence on the children, this cannot be rejected. It is believed and believed rightly that a mother’s lap is the first academy for a child. But there is a long journey between how a person is treated by his parents and his choice to commit an evil. Moreover, the imprints of parent’s behavior on the minds of the children are not like reflection in a mirror – it does not come back in the same form; or it is not like the input and output in the computer, where the output is as per the demands of the users. If it was so, parenting would not be difficult at all, but it is not so and the parents living in our society are the witness to it. The love from the parents will not necessarily result in a good conduct of the children – observations show that children with great love and attention from their parents have committed crimes and evils that have made history; similarly, their neglect does not necessarily result in the children becoming evil-doers. There are many children in our society, who are the victims of their parents’ negligence, yet they show great values and behavior and even hate evils. Simply, human behavior and psychology is not like mathematics where two plus two is equal to four. To understand it, more efforts are required than just to cram the tables; unfortunately, the people do not know anything better than that; therefore, they are not able to understand the complex nature of human existence.