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Originally posted by Lauren

I disagree. In the real world, people may thoroughly dislike their parents, resent their parents, never want to see their parents again. I still don't think they hate their parents.

There are very very few exceptions.

I agree, although I think that the few exceptions that we know of (presumably) ones we learn of through the media; I mean I would completely understand if Elisabeth Fritzl hated her father for what he did to her, whereas I would never truly accept that a friend 'hates' their parents, but my friend's reasons for 'hating' their parents wouldn't be splashed across the media for all to see. I'd say there are probably many people out there who can justifiably hate their parents, but I agree with Lauren's point that most people will only ever resent their parents at most - to truly hate your parents, you would, for example, never get on, never have fun with them or laugh with them and they would probably restrict you severely in many ways - I just don't think that would happen to most people who 'hate' their parents.