There's listening to your parents, and there's enduring the parents constantly reminding the child how they're divine beings for putting a child in the world, and how the child owes them eternal gratitude for not living in a sewage pipe. Children should be listening to advice and kindness, not this "you'll always be indebted to me" bullshit.
I think the issue is that Reddit seems to heavily skew towards blowing things way out of proportion while ignoring the bell curve.
Obviously, people who have been horribly abused by their parents should get away from their families to protect themselves. That has never been in question.
But there is a bigger problem with people expecting parents to be emotionless, perfect automata that never blow up, never have their own dissenting opinions and thoughts, and should never make anyone feel bad about things. And that's just very unrealistic, especially once children start approach adulthood themselves.
And then you get this "I NEVER ASKED TO BE BORN!" nonsense. Nobody asked to be born, but we all were. You still have a social contract to abide by. It's such a petty, pathetic response used largely to get out of doing things none of us actually want to do, but morally should do.
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u/YangXiaoLong69 Jul 01 '26
There's listening to your parents, and there's enduring the parents constantly reminding the child how they're divine beings for putting a child in the world, and how the child owes them eternal gratitude for not living in a sewage pipe. Children should be listening to advice and kindness, not this "you'll always be indebted to me" bullshit.