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0-10 - Parents have the greatest influence. (this is the most critical part of Tarbiyah)After a certain age friends and environment have more of an influence then parents it’s just reality I know people from good homes that got caught up you can’t always blame parents
10-14 - School plays the biggest role especially teachers. (there is still slim hope here)
14 - 20 - Friends have the greatest influence here. ( if the prior two failed your hopeless here)
20+ ---> Media/Social Media.
In our community the majority of the divorce happens within that critical decade in fact within the first 5 years, in the diaspora almost all of it initiated by the female, mostly over non critical or major factors, and the despicable attitude of the Father (in the older generation) is to throw the baby out with the bath water.
Even when they reconcile or become friends down the line and he wants to play a role or sometimes allowed to play a role (yes there are plenty of fathers denied that role) that crucial decade of Tarbiyah (0-10) to shape the mind of the child is already lost, even worse the critical phases were emotional bonding happens so you can at least have some influence with the child, also gone!
Once that's lost, the only hope you have is environmental factors (school/neighbourhood) and family network (uncle or cousin that stepped up) that could fill the gap and save the child.
We lack the first as our neighbourhoods are usually downtrodden so the child is toast in that department, nor do we have the support structures or systems in the majority of cases as we adopted an individualistic mindset in the diaspora.