Steve Firth wrote:
Stuart Noble wrote:

Parents do the best they can given that most of them have other burning
issues to deal with at that time in their lives

I thin the problem is that many people become parents without thinking
about it. I'm despairing with a professional colleague at the moment who
had children because "the biological clock is ticking". Now the children
are simply handed to nanny and the parent does nothing with the kids
except a good night kiss.


The same parent has "issues" with their own parents who behaved in
exactly the same way. Despite gentle prodding she can't see that her own
children will probably end up with the same problems (about parental
rejection) that she had.


Time for a bit of poetry....

They **** you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.