In his essay “Family Romances,” Freud presents the relationship between a child and his/her parents. Freud says that young children tend to see their parents as their only source of knowledge and their only authoritative figure. This ties into the idea of nature vs. nurture. Children are nurtured into their parent’s way of thinking until they became wise and mature enough to see beyond their parent’s ways. Young children lack true individuality because all of their beliefs are based on those of their parent’s. The child’s only true identity is his parents and the child’s only role model is his parents. As children become exposed to all of what life has to offer, they become conflicted. As Freud explains, “But as intellectual growth increases, the child cannot help discovering by degrees the category to which his parents belong. He gets to know other parents and compares them with his own, and so acquires the right to doubt the incomparable and unique quality which he had attributed to them…” Thus, as the child progresses and matures, he/she will doubt the perfection of his/her parents. The child will see all of the flaws in his/her parents in relation to other parents and other adult figures. The child’s lack of individuality provokes conflict within the child. The child then has to fend for his/her self to discover true sources of knowledge and wisdom. It is only appropriate for the child to undergo conflict and confusion in many ways, especially skepticism, sexual rivalry and fantasies. All of these are necessary for the child to learn and develop a sense of true individuality.