I've been saying this all along ... without absolving Donald Trump for his many sins, his father must have done a real number on him as a kid. I can't think of a worse role model to have turned his child into such a defective human life form. I feel a nearly uncontrollable urge to go piss on his grave for all that he helped to unleash on the rest of us.
Well, you had to send me into Google land. Unfortunately, 1) I’m not male, so not easy for me to do and 2) Queens is PITA to get to (maybe one more reason why 45 always wanted to be associated with Manhattan instead)
Many thanks, Kathy. I will make sure to drink at least a few fermented malt beverages before I make the journey, so that I am sufficiently capable of leaving my mark for posterity.
There's lots of lit in the psych world about abusers having parents who abused, who had parents who were abused, back through many generations in western societies. Children need both firmness AND love from their parents. Parents who were damaged as children can't show love to their own children unless they get therapeutic care to heal the wounds of their childhood.
I've been saying this all along ... without absolving Donald Trump for his many sins, his father must have done a real number on him as a kid. I can't think of a worse role model to have turned his child into such a defective human life form. I feel a nearly uncontrollable urge to go piss on his grave for all that he helped to unleash on the rest of us.
Well, you had to send me into Google land. Unfortunately, 1) I’m not male, so not easy for me to do and 2) Queens is PITA to get to (maybe one more reason why 45 always wanted to be associated with Manhattan instead)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40736522/frederick-christ-trump
Many thanks, Kathy. I will make sure to drink at least a few fermented malt beverages before I make the journey, so that I am sufficiently capable of leaving my mark for posterity.
His father made him a millionaire at 5 yrs old. I'm sure his father told him he could anything he wanted.
It seems to me that poor parenting has been the cause of much misery inflicted on humanity. Putin's parents were pretty awful as well.
Amen! Can't be said often enough or loud enough. I love the "they did their best" refrain that is often times offered in defense of shitty parents.
I think it can be argued that the vast majority of parents "do their best", I think it can also argued that many peoples' best is really quite shitty.
There's lots of lit in the psych world about abusers having parents who abused, who had parents who were abused, back through many generations in western societies. Children need both firmness AND love from their parents. Parents who were damaged as children can't show love to their own children unless they get therapeutic care to heal the wounds of their childhood.
So many abusers were abused. But many abused did not become abusers. No justification for what TFG is.
Not a justification, but an explanation.