• Malfeasant@lemm.ee
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    18 days ago

    I don’t really know how someone can love their kids, but

    Did he? Just because he had a family doesn’t mean he gave a shit about them…

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      17 days ago

      I mean, fair enough. Kinda hard for me to remember people can actively feel contempt or just complete disinterest for any kid, let alone their own.

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        17 days ago

        Also there’s a “love” that’s prevalent among the affluent that isn’t love at all.

        Where children are seen more as and expected to fill the role as familial assets of the patriarch, more an extension of the parent’s legacy. No appreciation for the kids themselves as individuals, but attempted clones of the parents, and met with disdain when they fail to fill that mold.

        The Trumps and Murdochs come to mind, and among extreme wealth, thats the exception not the rule.

        It’s not contempt at the outset or disinterest, they see their children as assets, no different than stock or capital, to play to increase the reach of THEIR leverage, even after they’re dead.

        As a parent, I have a great deal of contempt for parents that expect their kids to further their own interests or expect/demand they become little clones of them.

        Kids don’t owe you shit, you owe them.