Bad parents (boy, children, adults, health)

[June87]

What do you consider a bad parent? I'm genuinely curious as to what most people think is bad parenting.

[Jaded]

I usually find that people who are extremely selfish make poor parents, not necessarily bad though. Also, of course parents who abuse their children, verbally, physically, and even in utero...bad.

[mainebrokerman]

bad parents come in many colors...

they could cycle the crap they took as kids, if they did,,,which i never understood, because if you knew how bad something felt firsthand,,,why would you then place that on an innocent child?? which includes abuse of any kind

bad parents blame the kids for their own bad decisions, wrong, wrong, wrong..

parents that drink too much, fight too much, do drugs, again,,,abuse of any kind..


and sometimes a bad parent can be - not a parent at all, but a parent that gives their kids everything and tries to be a buddy ,,not a parent when they need to be one..
no structure/no discipline

sometimes kids just want time with a parent,,,not things,,,, parents that refuse to take their kids to a park,,,to take one on one time,,,,for a walk,,,etc, - when parents are always "too busy" for their kids,, life has a way with karma,tho,,you wont see them as adults ..









and as i hung up the phone it occurred to me, he grown up just like me, my boy is just like me....

[monumentus]

OP you can probably answer your own question.

Write down a list of the things you think a child actually needs to have a healthy and successful upbringing.

A "good parent" or "bad parent" would be a measure of how many or few of those things on the list the parent(s) in question actually provide.