Blaming The Parents

Having children brings serious responsibility. That responsibility is to provide for their basic needs until they are capable of taking care of themselves. Parents who have done this have done their job.
 
If they didn't, and we're now adults with free will, they are not the cause of the bad life we choose. 

​Many people have never had active parents in their lives. Some children were forced into dawn-to-dusk labor from the time they were six. Nevertheless, starving, diseased, abused, and crippled people have found a way to create or head successful companies, accumulate high wealth, make important scientific discoveries, and be world famous:
 
Steve Jobs was abandoned at birth, yet he co-founded Apple and reshaped multiple industries.
 
Marilyn Monroe lived in numerous foster homes and an orphanage, yet became an iconic actress and cultural figure.
 
Malcolm X was orphaned in childhood but then became a major civil rights and human rights leader.
 
Johann Sebastian Bach was orphaned at 10 and raised by a brother and went on to become one of history’s greatest composers.
 
Tolstoy lost both parents by nine and went on to became one of the greatest novelists ever.
 
Edgar Allan Poe's mother died when he was two and his father abandoned the family. He became a literary pioneer.
 
Oprah Winfrey grew up in poverty and was sexually abused by relatives and family friends starting at age 9, yet became one of the world’s most influential media figures.
 
Howard Hughes was neglected by emotionally distant parents who then died when he was a teen. He became an aviation pioneer and business titan.
 
Charlie Chaplin had an absent alcoholic father, a mentally ill mother, and endured extreme poverty and neglect in workhouses and orphanages. He became the most influential comedian of the silent-film era.
 
Louis Armstrong was raised in a violent neighborhood, father abandoned, mother often absent, and raised in a juvenile home. He became a jazz legend.
 
Ella Fitzgerald endured harsh reform school conditions, her father abandoned and her mother died when she was a teen. She became the “First Lady of Song.”
 
Babe Ruth was sent to an orphanage/reform school at age 7, but then became one of the greatest baseball players in history.
 
Larry Ellison was abandoned by his mother as a baby, raised by relatives, and then went on to co-found Oracle and become a top business magnate.
 
Isaac Newton was abandoned by his mother at birth, was raised by his grandparents, and went on to make foundational discoveries in physics and mathematics.
 
Richard Pryor was raised in a brothel, severely abused, his mother was a prostitute, his father a violent pimp, and he lived in an environment of continual trauma. He became one of the greatest comedians of all time.
 
Those notables aside, billions have had difficult and even cruel childhoods and yet saw their way to a normal, productive, and happy life.

​Obviously, adversity, pain, and suffering need not impede our happiness or success. In fact, difficulty in life can be the very thing needed to help us learn, grow, and be the best we can be.
 
If sympathy is needed, perhaps it should be for those who were pampered into weakness by having their every need met.  
 
Responding to this growing dependent mindset, the government robs the self-reliant by taxing their productivity and by the hidden inflation tax of fiat money.

​Free stuff is then handed to those who blame everyone but themselves for their state in life. The result is growing public dependency, greater government power, loss of liberty, financial collapse, and ultimately the collapse of civilization itself.
 
Dependence is the slow erosion of the self. Better that we pick ourselves up with our own bootstraps and become the best we can be.

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