But regret about one's choices re: one's family can be an awful tough feeling.
Lots of decisions look worse in retrospect, I'll attest to that.
Me too.
I agree with your empathy and compassion. One of the biggest problems in decision-making is feeling that somehow “we” can beat it, we can be exempt from the consequences that have befallen others.
The reason it’s hard not to believe that is that, in fact, it may be true. There is the chance that a family can experience fame and fortune and not be destroyed, not have the kids go crazy, not find it all ends in emotional emptiness and relationship ruin. But the chances are against it when it comes to putting kids in a situation where they experience early fame and fortune.
The Olsen twins had a pretty sheltered and normal life growing up, even though they were rich and famous and didn’t quite know it. BUt as soon as they understood their fame and fortune, it had the same gross effect on them that it has on kids who experience it all along.
Seems to be no escaping it.