A family plays a positive role in a person's life that leads to success, or a negative role that leads to failure. The love and concern of a family are very important in determining prosperity in the lives of its members, and without this support, a person will only face adversity. In Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald, the Piper family, mainly the father, is responsible for the painful life of the Piper daughters. The disappointment in the lives of Frances, Kathleen and Mercedes is due to a lack of love and education, inadequate parenting and excessive protection. Frances Piper's childhood is characterized by inadequate love, loss of innocence, and lack of concern, which ultimately leads to her disastrous life. At the age of six, he faces several traumatic events, particularly the death of his loved ones and the loss of his innocence. In the course of a week there were three deaths, two funerals and two burials in the Piper family. “Frances was crying so hard now that Mercedes got worried. 'I want my mama to come a-aaa-ack.'" ( McDonald 174). As a child, there is nothing more upsetting than losing a mother. A family is meant to comfort each other to make up for the loss of a loved one; however, this is not the case in the Piper family. Mercedes, who is only a year older than Frances, tries to console her even though she herself is worried. The loss of maternal love and affection has a huge impact about her future as now her sole guardian, James, expresses no responsibility towards her. Instead, he molests Frances on the night of Kathleen's funeral to ease her lost daughter's grief. As a result, “These disturbing experiences plague Frances with overwhelming feelings of low self-esteem and guilt that torment h...... middle of paper ......ld 138). After being raped by her father, Kathleen no longer wanted to live New York where he lived his dream life in freedom. Materia knew that Kathleen preferred to die, so she did the necessary during the birth and allowed the children to live. “James is slowly dismantling his daughter's life and making her feel worthless. It's the perfect example of what madness and jealousy can do within a family." (Marissa blogger.com). Simply in a fit of jealousy that someone had touched his Kathleen, which he regarded as his possession; his career and his lifelong dream of singing fails. Therefore, the father of the family is responsible for ruining his daughter's life due to his madness and jealousy. This consequently leads to his early death and an unsuccessful life, spent according to his commands.