How Parents' relationship to God affect Children's behavior

From Calvin's Sermons on Job:

Lo here the cause why children show themselves so loth to be corrected, and why they cannot be kept in awe: namely for that thier fathers are disobedient unto God. And so it is, that both the fathers and the children are condemned here: the fathers for thier negligence in not taking heed to bring up their children in the fear of God, and the children for not suffering themseves to be governed by their fathers.  - pg. 9

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