Re: It's quite basic

This may be the biggest reason why children, instead of being allowed to grow unimpeded (free-range children, as it were) are "raised" as if they are crops to be pruned and bent and shaped and molded into carbon copies of the parents, if for no other reason than to validate the parent's existence (see, I can't be all bad; here's another human just like me).

The irony is, once you account for genes, the effects of culture and especially peers, the impact of parents on their children's personality is likely near zero. Read the chapter entitled "Children" from Stephen Pinker's The Blank Slate ⚠️ ↗.