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It's hard for me to believe my children will turn out "bad".
It's hard to think I would ever not love them.
My job as a parent is to make sure I give them the tools to be upstanding citizens in their community. To become good people. If I do my part, I hope they will do theirs.
If they "fail" to become good human beings, I would see it as a failure of mine. I don't think I could ever not love my kids but if they did turn out bad and I know I'd done my job, then I'd be very disappointed in them for making bad decisions.
Yes, parents tend to love their children unconditionally. You see it all the time where parents deny their children's actions or try to make excuses for them. That is simply the way it is.
I have a friend whose adult son sexually molested his daughter and is rightfully serving his time in prison. She was extremely upset with him, but she tried making excuses for what he did and worries about his 'unjust' treatment in prison. It's hard for me to listen to it all because I have, like, NO sympathy. But I'm sure that if I was in her place that it would be too hard to process, too.
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