> Your culture and values are not universal. You're exactly right. There's a lot of crap culture and values in the world. > Children can adapt to and thrive

> Your culture and values are not universal. You're exactly right. There's a lot of crap culture and values in the world. > Children can adapt to and thrive in much worse environments than mostly only see Dad at the weekend. True as well. Doesn't make it any less horrible. Rationalizing away being a good parent is selfish. My mother died when I was 11 and my father (a director in his company) worked incredibly hard to manage the balance of the demands at work and taking the time and care to raise my sister and I. He did an extraordinary job and was very self-sacrificing, and so when I see comments along the lines of "I'm going to do what I want to do with my life and the kids will just have to adapt", it really kind of pisses me off.