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Children use false emotional performance to attempt to please their parents, while a misreading
of emotions along with believing false emotional performance cause familial relationships to
deteriorate. Children perform in attempts to protect (or care for) their parents in attempts to
protect their families from dissolution. The way the emotions are read differs between the
characters, with Rosemary being acutely aware of body language and Lees paying attention
mainly to facial expressions.
Lost child: Beth Polson and Miller Newton, Not My Kid: A Family's Guide to Kids and Drugs,
Arbor Books / Kids of North Jersey Nurses, 1984,
pp 86-90