Parents tend to focus more on material
             possessions rather than emotional feelings, which
             can cause giving children less familiar attention
             than they require. Many children suffer from low
             self-esteem and the inability to share their
             feelings because of not receiving enough emotional
             support from their parent(s). Children who lack
             emotional support reluctantly tends to hide their
             feelings and are not able to get close to other
             I Stand Here Ironing, by Tillie Olsen, begins
             with a mother who is struggling in life and has a
             lot of obligations to fulfill. "I stand here
             ironing and what you asked me moves tormented back
             and forth with the iron." This quote means even
             while the mother is busy she still thinks about her
             children and the comments they make. "I wish you
             would manage the time to come in and talk-"; The
             mother really does care about her children, but she
             just doesn't know how to show her love and worry
             about all the chores and obligations she has. "She
             was eight months old I had to leave her daytime's",
             "Emily's father, who could no longer endure." The
             mother is having a hard time because her husband
             responsibilities of a young child. The mother is
             still a child too; she is nineteen years old and
             struggling to find a job. "I found a job hashing at
             night so I could be with her days." Maintaining a
             job at night is tough because she returns home late
             and is too tired to spend a lot of time or be very
             loving to Emily. "I had to bring her to this family
             and leave her." The long nights of work and days of
             caring for young Emily is becoming too much;
             therefore, the mother takes her to a family that
             can take care of Emily like she needed. "It took a
             long time to raise the money for her fare back."
             The mother works hard to save the money to get
             Emily back, and also saves enough money to be able
             to afford a young child by herself. When Emily
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