intergenerational cycles in parenting

• Children who choose to do their own thing and nevertheless have good relationships with their parents often have open-minded parents whose own parents were oppressive. In other words, the freedom these children enjoy derive from the freedom their parents could not enjoy. Now that these children are growing up in a free environment, they will probably not give the same luxury to their own children since they are not even cognisant of its value.

• The fact that girls get more attached to their fathers and sons to their mothers creates a strange sort of justice between genders. If a father fucks up, then his girl grows up to fuck up as a mother, then her boy grows up to fuck up as a father and so on.