The Parenthood, directed by Ron Howard, is a movie that deals with many family issues. The movie is about a large family, and all of the adults have children of their own. The patriarch of the family is Frank Buckman. Frank has four children, Gil, Helen, Larry, and Susan. Each of them either has children with problems or problems with their children. The oldest son of the family is Gil. He has a wife, Karen, …showed first 75 words of 650 total…

…showed last 75 words of 650 total…are some sins committed when Karen contemplated abortion, and gave oral sex while Gil was driving, leading to him crashing the car. But according to class discussions, the sins are condemned and not the sinner. The parents are also willing to make sacrifices in order to give their children better lives. They also express their love several times in the movie, which shows they have a good marriage and care very much for each other.