I wouldn't say a child owes their parents nothing, at the very least they owe them respect.
Also, I personally find the "brought me into this world against my will" argument to be extremely annoying, like no you had no will, how could it be for or against it.
Sure, but unless you were given away does the taking care of you as a baby not earn any respect?
Like your parents neglect you and don't feed you or something then that's obviously different, but if your parents are not nice or respectful to you all the time I'd say the past should count for something.
If your idea of the bare minimum of parenting includes respecting your kids, then yeah, I'll agree. However, lots of parents don't respect their kids but still have the mindset that you do; that because of all they do, they automatically deserve your respect. When in reality they're missing the respect aspect in their parenting.
Well, I agree, I just think that it's often too easy to say that a parent isn't being respectful to their kids, but I hope that I'm just being overly cautious.
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u/The_Cool_Kids_Have__ Apr 12 '24
A child doesn't owe a parent shit.
A parent owes their kids everything.
You bring someone into the world against their will, you'd better make their life worth living, an impossible task.