There is no doubt that parents can have an influence on their children. It is vital that parents make the right choices as those choices will affect their children. Family environment, such as religion and politics, influences children to create a certain type of identity. If a child grows up in a Catholic home, the person's religious identity is likely to be Catholic. The same kind of concept applies to politics. As the person ages, they may alternate their identity from what they were taught when they were young (Mahalihali). When a person chooses an identity other than that of their parents or family, another identity is created. An example of this phenomenon is described when a teenager chooses to be homosexual, which clashes with his family identity. Society may label this type of behavior as unruly, which will then have an effect on social identity. Some people may try to avoid people with a bad social identity to keep their good identity intact (Deaux