Parenting must therefore be understood as a continuing effort towards individual survival and provision for others where the means to do so are severely constrained. Also, parents are rarely able to protect adolescents from significant levels of physical and psychological abuse, including humiliation, owing to their own low status in society, or detachment from the sphere of adolescents' work. Parents and children are in this sense equally vulnerable. This trend matters insofar as parents and adolescents worry about the future work opportunities for adolescents and their capacity to earn.