My father expresses his love very pooorly; he would still claim he loved me and be telling the truth, however -- this is true of many abusive people. Whether or not we should deny abusive parents the right to have and/or raise children is another issue entirely.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is good background reading to this sort of debate, yes.
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Re: You lead us to the next important problem we have...
Date: November 17th, 2003 05:18 am (UTC)From:My father expresses his love very pooorly; he would still claim he loved me and be telling the truth, however -- this is true of many abusive people. Whether or not we should deny abusive parents the right to have and/or raise children is another issue entirely.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is good background reading to this sort of debate, yes.