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Originally Posted by Livia

So this is society's fault?

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.