It’s really true. I have seen so many contemptible parenting styles. It is no wonder the kids are not successful. I could name dozens of families in our school alone who are repeating the mistakes of their parents before them, with even worse consequences given the downward moral spiral this country is in.
I will say, though, that having grown up in a dysfunctional, fractured family myself, the parents are to blame only until the grown child realizes what is wrong. At that point, if they don’t start making the changes necessary to set themselves on the right path, then the blame rests solely on them. Your destiny is in your own hands and the past, in spite of all its scars, should never be used as an excuse.
S’true. To a point. With certain rare and heartbreaking exceptions, bad parenting can be used as an explanation, but not as an excuse. The bad parents bear the blame for being bad parents, but it doesn’t excuse the child in most cases.
Ultimately, we’re all poor miserable sinners. My above post was kind of an expression of frustration about the bad parenting that I see around me, as well as my generation getting slammed every time one of these articles comes up, as if we’re the only ones who have ever screwed up.