Part of the book that's just trynna fuck me up..(Consciously challenging)

What do you call yourself, how do you feel, and what is your view towards this world if you didn't grow up with no parents or just a single parent? When Cesar gets out of jail, he seeks for Greg's help. One night at 3am Cesar calls him, hoping to get reassurance. "Have I...been...your son?''(30). The whole book challenges me but this is one of the parts that I could relate to. Greg replies, "Hell yeah". and Cesar exhales a sigh of relief. Ive had a couple adults in my life who I'd call mom. Its not like I didn't have one at home waiting for me, but since the relationship with my own mother isn't as open as I'd want it to be, these women were there to fill the spaces of hope. I know not everyone has a perfect family, with perfect parents. The moms I would build a relationship with would give me the emotionally and sympathy support I've always searched for in my own parents. My parents have a really different way of expressing themselves and are not always so sympathetic towards us ( their children). I think this really messes me and my siblings up because the way I would be as a parent, is totally different then what my parents act. I think that's why bump heads so much and disagree about our beliefs. Yeah, we are all going to have different beliefs all the time but when the main source of a childs life is constantly putting them down with non supporting words, that eventually gets to their inner core. That could mess with a childs life throughout their whole entire life. Parents don't realize that their actions are rippling down their child's life. They won't just get over it, their going to have to deal with their insecurities and whatever their parents put them through. Its going to come out through relationships with people and how the child makes decisions in life.