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The parents in the novel, Cry, the Beloved Country have trouble in raising their children. This is evident when looking at how much trouble the children get into. Absolom, the son of a priest, murders a white man. His cousin, Matthew, is an accomplice in the murde ....

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.... he does try to help. But it is too late to save Absolom, whose bad lifestyle is established and taken effect on him. Had Kumalo thought to get involved in his son's life earlier, Absolom probably would not be in the trouble he is in now. Kumalo's self-centeredness is clear when he learns of the trouble Absolom is in: "Perhaps his son and the girl would go back with them to Ndotsheni, perhaps he and his wife would give to the child what they had failed to give their own. Yet where had they failed? What had they done, or left undone, that their son had become a thief, moving like a vagabond from place to place, living with a girl who herself was no more ....