By referring to the article, "The Need to Have Enemies and Allies: From Clinical Practice to International Relations," it can be understood that children will show aggression in the classroom when they feel threatened. Unfortunately, children feel threatened when there is someone better than them at something especially when their home life does give security. For example, children from divorced homes have issues with low self-esteem and social competence because they left out from one or both parents. This is due to the fact that the parent is usually self-absorbed from their own emotional pain, which causes them to unintentional neglect their son or daughter's needs. By this occurring, children become very withdrawn in the classroom even though they do attempt express their emotional pain to their teacher. From there, it has been concluded from research divorced children have more emotional and social issues than those who come from a two-parent home. When children do not have the attention that they need at home, they show aggression in the classroom.
             In ethnic conflicts, the bloodlines that link the various groups within the community often come into relief, creating borders or boundaries that are increasingly entrenched, and which cannot be crossed except at a significant, perhaps life threatening, cost. "Two groups that have lived together for generations may suddenly be transformed into merciless enemies and the unthinkable may become a gruesome reality [in which] individual values can give way to a collective will," Volkan notes (Race Murder and Community Trauma:Psychoanalysis and Ethnography in Exploring the Impact of the Killing of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas).
             It is apparent that family structure is highly important to children's behavior due to the fact it does affect all levels of educational performance, which includes preschool to college. Furthermore, family has a big influence on...