I feel sorry for the children of such people. I grew up in an environment of alcoholics. Many of my family were alcoholics. My sister and I are most definitiv

I feel sorry for the children of such people. I grew up in an environment of alcoholics. Many of my family were alcoholics. My sister and I are most definitively not alcoholics. We purposefully avoided such a path. My cousins also. We are seen by some of the older family as 'prissy/non-enjoyers of life/less willing to be 'alive/etc'. Though overall my parents I'm sure are happy we don't drink like they do/did. Whenever you break from the group, it causes tension. One would hope most adults weren't so small minded that they would prefer their children suffer like them, so long as to not highlight their own ghosts. One generation should want the best for the next, and that means leaving behind things that have overwhelming negatives (such as genital mutilation) - I'm sure one day we will look back at purposefully keeping a child def or 'little' as a form of extreme cruelty.