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[quote=Anonymous]It doesn't matter how smart or gifted or simple the parents are--what matters is how loving and selfless and giving and supportive the parents are.

If you're a self-centered, arrogant genius, or a tortured genius, or an absentminded professor genius, you're not a bad parent because you're a genius--you're a bad parent because you are selfish or mentally ill or living in your own mind, and unable to give of yourself to your children.

Now, there are some parents whose jobs require great sacrifice for their families.  I'm thinking of a general my husband deployed with.  He's a superb leader and a devoted husband and father...but he's gone ALL the time.  He has to be.  And his children and his wife suffer in his absence.  When I would point an accusatory finger at him, my husband would say, if not him, then who?  Some peoples' vocations call for great sacrifice.  And their families can only do their best.  As PP noted, everyone has free will.  When difficult circumstances are forced upon us, because we love someone who has great responsibilities outside of the family, we can choose to rise to the occasion or fall apart.

I think of St. Gianna Molla often.  A wife and mother, she was also an excellent doctor.  But she was humble and quietly served EVERYONE who needed her, to the best of her abilities.  And then she laid down her life for her child.  The greatest act of selflessness and love there is.  That's what every parent is called to do:  to love.

How that love is expressed will depend on an individual's temperament, talents, and economic circumstances.  But children know when they are loved.  They know when their parents are selfish.  Whether their parents work for money or not is not the determining factor of love versus self-absorption.[/quote]

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