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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes I honestly don't get you people. These aren't random annoying elderly people. These are your parents.  You have young children now.  Your parents have done everything for you that you are doing now for your parents, at the time where there was considerably less technology available to deal with household tasks. They cleaned your bum, spoonfed you, got up when you whined in the middle of the night for no good reason, taught you to read, funded your college education and paid for everything you owned until you left the nest. And you can't find time to call them now.  Even if you kissed their feet every day for a year, it still wouldn't have been enough. I don't get you. [/quote]

Get off your judgmental high horse.[/quote]

She is not in any high horse, but probably fustrated and angry at how insignificant and unappreciated her own muddy life is. Let's just be sorry for her. Who knows why her children ignore her.[/quote]
?? My life is just fine, my children are small so they worship me still, and we always have time for grandparents.  It surprises me to see attitudes like yours just like it would surprise me to see green skin or four eyes on a person. To me, someone who feels this way toward your parents is not fully human. [/quote]

I need to ask, were you born in this country?

In this planet?

Because to regard as "not fully human" any adult who don't feel a need to talk to their parents at all times says much more about your inhumanity than theirs.[/quote]
I need to ask, why do you think being born in this country defines morality, goodness or a proper model of child/parent relationship?

This isn't about adults who don't want to talk to their parents ALL the time. It's about adults who have no time for their parents and don't prioritize them. I find that distasteful.  Your parents didn't wonder whether they felt the need to wipe your ass when you soiled yourself or pick you up when you cried. That you deny this debt even exists says a lot about you. 
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You have a different experience, relationship than do others of us. Be grateful for your situation and stop being such a smug jerk about those of us who struggle with family members.[/quote]
The OP's comment was not about struggling with family members, it was about too consumed with life to make room for them. [/quote]

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