Hello class and welcome to Kai Barboza's assessment of one of the Scarlett Letter's, a book written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, essential question.

Within the book The Scarlett Letter, Hester Prynne's adulterous actions leads to many complications. Thus it could have been concluded that her sinful actions affect her entire life. Therefore, from this assessment, I wondered how can being an adulterer affect the way in which a person parents his or her child? I then concluded that the optimal answer would be derived from a psychological standpoint.

Through my research, I have discovered that poor parenting, caused by the separation within a cheating relationship, is present within the child of an adulterous relationship. This research then pointed to the fact that the poor parenting presented itself in either negligence or in an anal parenting technique. This conclusion was concluded off of the findings from the article “Recovering from an Extramarital Relationship from a Non-Systematic Approach.”

Within this article, Marina Oppenheimer explains that although a cheating spouse leads to the other spouses’ betterment it causes the
parents to negatively parent the child. She explains that due to the anger and misplaced hurt the adulterer forces strict guidelines on the child or gives the child no punishment for wrong. Therefore she says neither of these two parenting techniques are the most optimal for the child and thus concludes that cheating within a relationship leads to the parents being unable to parent in the most optimal technique.

This declaration of the ineffectiveness of a cheating wife is most evidently seen when she exclaims that when a wife is unloved she becomes a witch, “A wife who feels unloved by her husband becomes a witch." (Oppenheimer 3) Therefore she says that due to the unloved wife the wife and husband would misplace their wickedness and put it on her child. Thus, she says that having misplaced wickedness hurts the child most off all and thus says that an adulterer can not parent well by either being too strict or not strict enough.