According to Siegel (2011), family is the primary unit where children learn the values and attitudes that will guide them throughout their lives but when this very important unit is disrupt or goes under drastic changes can have negative long-lasting effects in the children. ... According to Siegel (2011) children that go through family transitions are more likely to engage in delinquent activity due to lack of supervision and many times they advantage of the situation ending up doing whatever they want. ...

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But I was not prepared to receive such news, it was the beginning of 2005 and my father seeing that my mother was for several days complaining about a pain in the belly, they both decided to go to the hospital and ask a medical opinion of what could be that pain. ... My father gave a huge smile and said, "Lucas, you will have a brother" and he gave a happy laugh, like making joke of us, because we thought that it could possibly be a disease but actually it would be my brother coming, the brother that I always wanted is finally coming to give me company, even with the large age difference, it w...

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