There are ways in which only you, as mom or dad, can meet your child's need for satisfying love. The question exposes the inner condition that may help diagnose some of your child's actions. A child who is not sure he or she is loved is a ticking time bomb. Children who leave home without a tankful of satisfying love are vulnerable to the predators. It may be hard for you to read this without thinking about your own deep love-need, perhaps unmet by a parent who did not know how to meet it.
Life becomes a revolving-door search for love in all the wrong places.
Many an adult is still posturing and performing to get the love he or she should have gotten from Mom and Dad. The price is often high and the return disappointing. Let me suggest an answer to the X-Ray Question. Your children probably feel loved by you if you are loving them in their language . Every member of your family has a personal language of love-expressions that really communicate love to that person.