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[quote=Anonymous][quote=cepheus][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently respecting your elders is a foreign concept. ACs should be grateful to their parents and pay them respect. They owe them respect. [/quote]

Respect is earned or given not demanded or enforced. You decide to have unprotected sex and bring kids into this world. You wanted to have children so you got to raise them. Why do you expect a thank you for your choice and its consequences? What choice they had in their existence or upbringing.

If they love and respect you, you taught them well. If they don't, its still on parents.

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I would think some parents loved their children and were still abused by them.   I think some parents are blinded by their love for them and therefore are in denial and unable to enforce boundaries.

There would only be a thousand reasons why adult children are abusive.   I do not always think they parents brought it on.

When I witnessed a sibling mocking my mother, I was not impressed and did not think my mother earned the abuse.

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And did you say something?

Many kids blame their parents for insecurities that they have and can't reconcile. Not fitting in, being jealous of a sibling, all kinds of things. Parents aren't the only variables in a person's life.  Their personality,  their experiences, the messages society sends. Parents can do everything well, and a kid can still deal with major issues of mental health.  [/quote]

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