We may say that we remember — for example — that we 'didn't get on too well' with our father, that our mother was 'slightly neglectful' or that going to boarding school was 'a bit sad.'
And there's a lot of research that shows that having neglectful parents who just allow there to be chaos in your life, even when you're a teenager, it can do a lot of harm.
The father is supposed to earn this respect by caring for the son and educating him, but this doesn’t mean that a son has the right to disrespect a neglectful father.
From there, like we've seen in other disorders, genetic and biological influences can intersect with an abusive or neglectful environment to help wire the personality in a peculiar and damaged way.
So you would just pee yourself and your neglectful parent would leave you to wallow in your own urine and get diaper rash because that stuff wouldn't leak out.
And I've sort of spun that interaction into her being a horrible person, a neglectful mother, inconsiderate of other people, and it just has sort of become this hurricane.
No, it's true, because it's like you, I mean, there's three kind of parenting styles outside of neglectful, which is not, you know, that's a whole other thing.
We've bought into the idea that all the problems people might have from their childhoods come down to the fact that their parents were mean or neglectful.