A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement

Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement by jdavis703 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:02PM (#27836976)

What about people raised by single parents? What do they owe to the absentee parent?

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Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement by scotty79 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @08:03PM (#27839984)

Gratitude for removing him/herself from your life and saving you all the drama that would inevitably end up happening.

I'm saying this as a child of single parent.

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Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement by EvilEy3 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @06:11PM (#27839085)

Knocked out teeth.

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Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement by bostik on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:13PM (#27837849)

An apology?

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Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement by mensetmanusman on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:43PM (#27838174)

You might be confusing the question. A child does not have to apologize to a parent that left before they were born.

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Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement by bostik on Thursday July 15, 2021 @07:45AM (#27843643)

Sadly, I wasn't confusing it. The world is cruel, and a non-zero fraction of absentee parents became so because of the child in question.

Meaning: for a number of children with an absentee parent, they were the reason for one of their parents to abandon the other.

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Re:A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement by mensetmanusman on Thursday July 15, 2021 @07:55AM (#27843705)

Isn’t this ignoring consent? The child had no choice in whether to be conceived; at least one of the parents did :)

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