I am not a trained psychologist, but I am a very observant person, who has been placed in a situation with much to observe. So please take my words to heart for I believe they are more truthful than any explanation to date.
Much conflict arises in the common American household between parents and their children.
Blame is never on one party alone, but it has so long been the burden of the children, for they have never had a voice or an outlet to express their side of the story, I would like to be that outlet. Parents have a very difficult job raising children, and especially teenagers, though much can be attributed to the way most parents view the situation and their children. Parents, and mothers especially, view their children as just that, their children. Not as a separate entity or individual but as a continuation of themselves, almost as a possession. This view develops early in the parent-child relationship, when the child truly is an extension of the mother, and then further develops in the early months and years of a child's life.