Society often emphasizes the role of parents and how they should raise their children, but parents often go against what society thinks and often practices. Both my parents contradicted each other while their expectations were very different. Their expectations were different in one aspect where they both wanted me to succeed, but they wanted me to reach a certain limit, especially when it meant excelling more than them. The parental expectations that were placed on me went incredibly wrong, because I; unlike others, he took a different path and succeeded very well. My father is an educated black man who went to college to earn his liberal arts degree. He went to business school and also helped my brother and I start our business, which is still very successful today. My father is a teacher. A teacher to me is a prominent figure in the community, someone who not only educates others but also himself. While my father came from a large family of more than 12 people; and humble beginnings, he expected my brother and I to do something greater than what he did, but in the back of my mind, he didn't even want us to be his "better" competition. My father wanted us to go to university, get a degree and pursue a good profession. He also hoped that one day I would marry a black man and have children. I believe that my father wanted for me what his life was not, the path he would have liked to take. My father has five children, Christopher; 26, Darce; 19, I; 17, and two twelve-year-old twin daughters whose identity still remains unknown to me. Just as she had children at an early age, she got divorced the same way. He spread his seed like it was a fad and didn't handle his parenting responsibilities. And then when I got to the age where I knew what sex was, he also expected me to get pregnant when I was young too. He expected me to get pregnant at 17 and not graduate from high school, at least that's what he thought would happen. I defiantly turned 17 without getting pregnant, graduated high school a year early at the top of my class, and am enrolled in one of the most prestigious black colleges in America..