5. Providing emotional
security:- To provide
security to a child is to help protect
and shield the child's fragile psyche. It is to provide a safe loving environment,
give a child a sense of being loved, being
needed, welcomed.
* To
give a child a sense of being loved through:
1. Emotional support, encouragement.
2. Attachment, caressing, hugging, touch, etc.
6. Providing emotional
development:- development
refers to giving a child an opportunity
to love other people, to care, to help.
* Developing in a child
an ability to love through:
* Showing empathy and compassion to younger and older, weaker and
sicker, etc.
* Caring for others, helping grandparents, etc.
7. Other parental
duties:-
* Financial support:
Money provided as child support by custodial or non-custodial
parent(s), or the state.
* Insurance coverage and payments for education.
* Source of external stress.
