Why Do Parents Experience a Decline in Well-Being When Their

Why do parents experience a decline in well-being when their children experience some type of failure in adulthood?

A) The parents have more conflict with their children when they have experienced a failure in adulthood because they want to give advice and their children don't want to hear it.
B) The parents are likely to feel a sense of failure on their own part because they were not able to help them.
C) Parents are going to have a decline in well-being regardless of their children's failure because of the empty nest phenomenon.
D) The parents are more likely to have conflict with each other when their children experience failure because they do not always agree on how to help.