Revise the sentence. replace nouns with pronouns.

sentence1: when father listened patiently, although my father did not want to be there. (find the noun replace it with pronoun)

sentence 2: the youngest children played first. most of the youngest children were prepared( find noun and replace it with pronoun, write the whole sentence with the pronouns you had replaced that had been nouns)

sentence 3: when the daughter performed, the daughter's playing was sloppy.( find noun turn it into pronoun)

marriage difficulties adversely affect parent-child communication

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.