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Family Structure and Language Differences

Growing up with parents that divorced when I was at a young age, gave me two different gender roles and values to grow up with. Each parent was able to see me at two different times which gave me two different view points. From each parent there were values I liked and values I disliked. Each of there views gave me a greater understanding of who they are and where they came from and their perception of life.
Both my parents had very different upbringings. My father being a deaf son of hearing parents was forced to try and speak all the time, even when he was old enough to speak normally his parents constantly talked to him as though he was retarded or like a toddler, telling him to use his big words and ask for things not to point to them. Not till he was in school did he meet other deaf students and start to learn real communication and language skills. He was slow in some of his studies because of the way his parents treated him as a......

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