A significant part of the tension that exists between parents and children stems from the parents' feeling that the child represents them, and serves as their “calling card” in the community. In our parasha we find that this idea has a basis in Jewish law as well as implications in halakha. The Torah rules that when the daughter of a kohen engages in forbidden sexual relations, the punishment she receives – sereifa (burning) – is more severe than that of an ordinary Jewish woman, explaining that through her actions "she has profaned her father" (Leviticus 21:9).