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The Neumann children even offered to sell their personal belongings to help their parents. Not only that, but divorce became an idea in their family as things weren't being resolved. In the video, the children of the Stanley family are shown doing gardening work as a business. Although the ideal is that they will most likely not earn much, but it is still a hope. They were happy to do the “dirty work” (Gans, 1971) because it would help their family overcome the crisis. While the Stanley family was struggling, the Neumanns were having problems (still around the 1990s) as their children were forced into the norm of never having their parents or either parent at home. At this time, socialization between children in both families and their parents declined, greatly affecting how they learned, thought, spoke, and translated ideas into