10-04-2015, 11:48 PM
(10-04-2015, 11:00 PM)Surge Wrote: At the risk of being labeled selfish I can't help but wonder why it seems to be such a common theme on the internet that people have abusive parents, surely there is some aspect to all these stories of negligent and abusive parents that isn't being heard. I wonder what it is.
You are only hearing one (potentially very skewed) side of the story. It's very possible that some of stories of abusive parents are greatly exaggerated or embellished.
Not to imply that's always the case, I'm sure there are very horrible parents out there, but you probably also get the flipside "Oh my god my parents are so abusive