Keep it in the family (Parental Support in general)

Member Name: sympatic

Product:	Parental Support in general
Date:	09/11/08 (61 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Family support

Disadvantages: Gets over bearing at times

I have been fortunate enough to have had two amazingly supporting parents even though the person I call Mum is not my biological mother, she left the hme many years ago and gave up her right to be considered a mother to myself and my brother instead the wonderful person my father met and marries a couple of years later has been a great source of support for me.

My parents were also fortunate to have the support network of a close knit family structure, sure at times this could be a bit claustrophobic with anties coming out of the woodwork and both sets of grand parents on hand but the plus side was that we were and to some extent still are surrounded by cousins who were also childhood friends and now adult ones as well with the added bond of blood relatives.

These days there are also lots of non family support out there in the form of family health counsellors, schools with a more outward community feel to them and also a whole range of professionals, parents also have the huge research capability of the internet to get support, and while there are some down sides to all of these they also proivide an opportunity to others.

Despite these I still feel that it is the family that provides the best support network by a signifcant margin.

Summary: Parental support