10. If children see their main-carer parent exhausted, depleted, poverty-stricken, and worried, they may reasonably believe themselves to be a burden. Guilt, and thinking you must not add to your parent's load e.g. by telling them if you're in trouble, isn't conducive to a carefree and emotionally healthy childhood.

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