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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Parents give them self to much credit. My Dad was a raging drunk who left us penniless when he died leaving my Mom with four kids to raise with zero money or life insurance. To top is off my Mom had an 8th grade education and last job she had was a waitress 18 years earlier. Dad dropped dead with an 18, 16, 15 and 11 year old at home. Growing up was always massive fights, Dad beating us with belts and sometimes the cops showing up.

All four of us got masters degrees and I am sitting in a two million dollar paid off home, have a 750K paid off beach condo and 8 million in bank/stocks.  My one sibling has like 20 million.

we all graduated zero loans good schools with zero parental help. My Mom even charged me for rent and groceries in college.

[b]Many big movie stars and famous people had horrible childhoods.[/b] Many thing if not for the bad childhood they would have never succeeded in life.    [/quote]

Let's face it... if rock star parents were ecstatic when their kids said they were dropping out of HS with no plan but a dream and a guitar...well, they won't become rock stars (even though 99.9% of those kids won't become rock stars either).

It's funny...Billy Corrigan from the Smashing Pumpkins has a whole podcast on this.  His dad was a big jazz player in Chicago, but a drunk and professional failure that treated Billy and his mom terribly.  His dad hated his music...but after he made it big his dad told him that if he had been a normal supportive parent...how would he have had the drive to make music that his dad hated and become the star he is.

Billy is philosophical...because on one hand his dad is correct...but on the other he wonders that perhaps I would have become some incredible jazz guitarist instead.

He still doesn't know the correct answer.[/quote]

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