-Essay on play Leaving Home -Playwright is David French In a society where children are not close with their parents, there should be more of an effort on the parents' part to establish a close bond between parent and child. In the play Leaving Home, Jacob Mercer shows that he is not a good father by the way he insults his children, how distant he is from his children, and how little respect he has …showed first 75 words of 758 total…

…showed last 75 words of 758 total…not getting it. If one were to consider the above information, they would see that Jacob Mercer is not a good father because of the way he insults his children, distances himself from his children and does not give his children any respect. This does not always have to be the case because if certain negligent parents would pay more attention to their children than problems such as the ones given above might not occur.