Children, the future of tomorrow or children, the present and matured of today. In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the author tells the story of her childhood through vivid depictions from her earliest memory to her modern day life, where poverty is no longer a part of it. This story enlightens the audience of encounters where her sibling and herself seem more mature than her parents, and the question of responsibility is hinted. Altogether the Wall’s children should have been allowed to be emancipated from their parents because of the parent’s negligence and instability, which left the children caring for themselves in most occasions. When reviewing the childrens’ day-to-day life, the audience notices how the mother and farther