Both of them and everything around them. If it weren't for the places I lived in I would be a totally different me. You need a good father and mother and both of them together helps alot. I am very damage by life. My parents are divorced and I never got to witness love between two humans only hatred.
Depends. If one of them is a horrible parent, that parent will influence you very much, both for the good and the bad. A great parent only influences you if he/she is great as a rule, not as an exception. But I don't think there's a rule.
I'm the only girl in a pack of four - my little brother is very attached to his mum (and he's just one year younger than me so his age has no say); I'm very much like my mum and she has influenced me the more than my father because, growing up, I was with my dad approxomately 50-65 days a year; my brother who is two years older than me I think is influenced a lot by my dad and his dad (he lived at his mum and my dad's house though, during most of his childhood); my eldest brother was most influenced by our mum for the most of his childhood, but that took a sudden turn about 5 years ago. Now he's a lot like our dad, which sucks.
So I don't think there's a rule. We're all different and parents act differently around different children.
No doubt in my mind that it is the mother. Contrary to what the dems said a fewmonths ago, Mrs. Romney the stay at home mom is more than a credit to her lifestyle that she selected to rear a wonderful family. Yep, the mother is always held in the highest regard.
Whomever the child spends the most time with. This is often the mother but not always. There are stay at home fathers raising their children and there are single fathers raising children too.
I'm the only girl in a pack of four - my little brother is very attached to his mum (and he's just one year younger than me so his age has no say); I'm very much like my mum and she has influenced me the more than my father because, growing up, I was with my dad approxomately 50-65 days a year; my brother who is two years older than me I think is influenced a lot by my dad and his dad (he lived at his mum and my dad's house though, during most of his childhood); my eldest brother was most influenced by our mum for the most of his childhood, but that took a sudden turn about 5 years ago. Now he's a lot like our dad, which sucks.
So I don't think there's a rule. We're all different and parents act differently around different children.