Demeter and Persephone: Relationship Between Parent and Child In the Story of Demeter and Persephone we learn about the relationship between parents and their children. More importantly, this relationship is a mother daughter relationship and has Ideas that Greek culture might have practiced. In this story we also see the growth of characters and the changes that they go through because of the actions by others around them. Demeter is the beautiful goddess who is …
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…live with the fact that their child had grown up and left home. The Greeks also had great pride in getting their children raised well as we saw with Celeus and his family. It also seems that fathers played a small or non-existent role in raising their children. Regardless of what decisions were made regarding the children, in the end, parents always learned that they had to live with it as Metaneira and Demeter did.