Divisions over parenting have been grotesquely magnified by the insane algorithmic dance of the internet
never ends. It just changes, akin to when you get fired from a job but then get rehired as a consultant, with better hours and less responsibility.
Breda O’Brien: What should the Vatican do when the world’s most influential religious artist is accused of sexual abuse? Even if you are preternaturally calm, sleep deprivation will reduce you to a crumbling wreck like the rest of new parents. That’s where the faintest trickle of alarm begins. Much of the backlash talks about children growing up as self-centred monsters but I am more worried about the toll on parents.
One responded to logic. Another often took it as a personal insult. One hated conflict and literally ran away from it. Another felt that once a minor conflict emerged, thrashing it out until every nuance was examined was the only possible way to spend half a day. And so on. Nor does childhood determine everything that subsequently occurs in a person’s life. We all know people who emerge from train-wreck families as decent, funny, caring human beings. We also all know parents who try their very best and the child still goes off the rails.
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