These are the kind of parents that will say "oh, poor me, my wretched child is so terrible and refuses to call or visit. How could they treat their parents like this?" Trust me, I absolutely know. It's never about you, it will always, always be about them.

I cut off my abusive stepmom 25 years ago. I haven't heard her whine or complain at all. ;)

Want me to smear parakeet s**t on these guys's clothes too? I CAN AND I WILL

Basic decency is a very rare phenomenon.

I don't know what you mean, Sara. Animals in nature and domesticated animals do take care of their young. It's natural instinct. A cow whose calf was taken from her right after birth is displaying enormous grief -all that torture so "people" can steal her baby's milk. By the way, there's no other creature in nature which would drink mother's milk after weaning, let alone the milk of another species, only humans are capable of such a perversion. The animal milk protein - Casein is very dissimilar from human protein, it is causing (together with animal protein and cholesterol in meat and eggs) chronic, painful inflammations in human body - such as arthritis; chronic diseases - such as diabetes; heart diseases - clogged arteries; and various cancers. - Because "people" treat animals in so wantonly cruel a manner, they are incapable to rule themselves in any civil, just manner and co-exist in peace with each other, they are even incapable to properly care for and raise their children.

I once noticed a women mistreating a child - a girl, I wanted to tell her: 'You are forgetting that one day she will choose a nursing home for you'. Children's natural kindness must be nurtured, not destroyed. Some children - such as nexerxe, are capable to retain their compassion despite the distressing circumstances.

Loving a parent, even toxic, is kind of natural. Kids still love their parents and suffer the pain it causes, until they learn to distance from people like that. And it still hurts even then because most of them remain wishing their parents were different and miss what could and should have been. Kind of leaves you partly broken forever...