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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know you are talking to multiple people, right? I am the PP who is saying you should think critically rather than taking an article as gospel truth. I haven't said anything about the discussion here. There are multiple people who disagree with OPs interpretation.

I am still confused as to why it's so scary to suggest that you not assume everything an author writes is inviolate.[/quote]
I don't think people assume that *all* affluent parents are like this.  But, I think there is more of this type of pressure in affluent families, and so this article should just be a warning to check yourselves.  There have been, and probably will continue to be, seemingly have-it-all, high achieving children from affluent families that commit suicide due to pressure, either from parents, peers, or themselves.  [/quote] Yup and poor kids with disinterested parents feel hopelessness and dispair and kill themselves, too. Perhaps those parents need to "check themselves."  If course, those deaths don't get as much media play...[/quote] I don't think this is stupid, at all. The entire premise of the thread is that rich people screw up their kids by having high expectations. [b]It seems entirely reasonable to demonstrate the flip side of the story.[/quote][/b]

I suppose that could be a subject for another story.   But my guess is it wouldn't strike nearly the chord this story has with DCUM parents, which tells you something.  [/quote]

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