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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
I'm not removing blame from the woman, no more than I remove blame from a murdering rapist just because he himself might have been abused as a child. I'm not trying to say that she, personally, isn't mentally very "wrong".
But yes: the bewilderingly poor standard of interaction that passes as "parenting" is largely society's "fault", if you can call it that. More just a consequence of society. It can't really be "at fault". it doesn't have reasoning or direction, it's more just... Faulty.
Human beings are social creatures by instinct. Isolated parents sometimes end up not coping for many reasons. Parenting in isolation is unnatural.
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..I'm not sure that society is any more or less 'faulty' than it ever was, though..?...
..specifically with this mother, I think that she's either very mentally ill or very evil and there have always been people like that...