Why would someone giving birth to you oblige one to forgive severe physical abuse merely because you are too big to beat up at this point? It is a bizarre to s

Why would someone giving birth to you oblige one to forgive severe physical abuse merely because you are too big to beat up at this point? It is a bizarre to suppose that love is owed instead of earned or earned once instead of the result of ongoing effort. If you stop feeding your cat or watering your plant it dies same with your relationship. I would venture to guess that the majority of estranged parents don't know this or in denial about having let the relationship die. The article says that the majority of parental estrangement is due to divorce especially the non custodial father then successfully segues to some nonsense about identity politics. I don't see it as a realignment of values so much as a more boring story about parents breaking up and becoming estranged spiced up with a minority becoming estranged because the values they hold are correctly deemed odious and hateful. If you hate gay people and your kid is either gay or feels strongly about the issue they aren't going to want to be around you. If you talk about shooting dirty liberals and your kid is a dirty liberal likewise. If your own kid hates you the first thing you should do is ask yourself why and if you blame it on a lack of family values you are almost certainly the problem. We both have good relationships with our kids I think you misunderstand why others don't.