“I am stating a fact that they raised honest, responsible, self-sufficient adults. “
I’ll bet they raised drug abusers. But maybe the kids learned something from their parents’ dissipation and avoided it in disgust. I hope so.
You lose the bet. The oldest doesn’t smoke pot or tobacco and doesn’t drink alcohol. He has worked full time since he was 15 (his choice and he finished high school) and got a degree in graphic arts, put his wife through the CO School of Mines and now is an instructor and the director of a music school. The next boy became the most sought after stone mason in the county by the time he was 25 and was married and owned his own home at the same time. And a boat. And a big diesel truck and two ‘68 Camaros. Their daughter is 21 and has worked since she was 18. None of them abuse drugs.
That is in no way true. There is no "dissipation" (whatever that means) in them and their kids love them like no parent-child relationship I've ever seen. Both boys were men in the best sense of the word (honest, trustworthy, responsible and working) by the time they were 16 years old. He raised them the way any Marine would.