Two troubled children, begins to look like bad parenting.
Indeed.
Sounds like maybe Rob had crappy parents too. You learn parenting from your parents. If your parents are clueless, what are they going to teach them?
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Condolences to Romy and the extended family and friends.
Doesn’t help growing up in Hollywood.
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Mom and dad live in HollyWood . < > They were saying Nick stole $200 and hired a hooker at 14 or 15 .
If $200 went missing at my house growing up, heads would have rolled.
Generational sin is real. Whole families and generations of families crushed by unrepentant sin.
Exactly...liberals make horrible parents.
Screeching, harping bug eyed liberals don’t make good parents.
No surprise. It’s Hollywood
Bad parenting? You’ve got to add to the mix the leftist Hollywood culture filled with America hating communists and outright perverts. Yes Reiner was indeed a bad person to be raising kids, but with a culture like Hollywood the kids had no where to turn except straight towards Hell just like Reiner.
My parents were less than perfect, as were their parents and most likely other ancestors. There comes a time when we reach adulthood that we are responsible for ourselves and can no longer blame our failures on our parents or anyone else. The good news is I have lived in a good culture most of my life and never fell for the leftist victim hood life of a doper that constantly felt sorry for myself and hated everyone.
I blame the Hollywood culture equally to that of poor parenting.
“Well, she grew up with the children of the stars
In the Hollywood hills and the boulevards
Her parents threw big parties, everyone was there
They hung out with folks like Dennis
Hopper and Bob Seger and Sonny and Cher
She feels safe now in this bar on Fairfax
And from the stage I can tell that
She can’t let go and she can’t relax
And just before she hangs her head to cry
I sing to her a lullaby”
From what I’ve heard & read, it sounds like her brother, Nick, had mental illness as a child, before he reached his teen yrs and started using alcohol & drugs.
Was there ANY GOD in their miserable lives??
“’I could have a dream where I have to fight off twelve huge men with guns to save my life and run,’ she explained. ‘I have to literally murder people to survive in my dreams.’
Sound familiar? Where have we seen exactly that? That dream expresses anxiety at the role women have been depicted in in movies and culture for her whole life.
Must have been a lot of family stress going on. Reiner was too obsessed with his own political views. He was blinded by the light.
Hollywood appears to have the largest concentration of the mentally ill and emotionally unstable on the planet, and yet they are idealized by millions.
Anyway, my parents raised a squared away guy who never messed with drugs, just never saw what was so great about them.
My brother was the pothead. And of course, I became one of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children.
If one is raised in Hollywood, it's pretty much inevitable that one will enter that lifestyle.
As I’ve thought all along the family was not as perfect as was being portrayed and there were real issues within the family dynamic and Nick was just the symptom of that.
Just as likely— there is some inherited medical issue afflicting the family that is undiagnosed.
Terribly sad. And a sad statement in the medical and mental health industries.
Or genetic predisposition
How anyone could even stay awake long enough to be able to smoke more than 1/3 of an average joint in a day I have no idea. Going through 25 of them (approx. 1 ounce) like that means you’re not doing much, if anything, to manage your own life. If what she has said about it is true then she should’ve been in a wheelchair wearing a hockey helmet.