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It's not at all like a child who grabs some cookies. It's more like an idiot teenager who tells a loving father to go to and stuff it.
We raise a child. We do the best we can. We teach laws, morals, principles. He becomes a teenager. He falls in with the wrong crowd. He's haughty. He thinks he knows everything. He thinks he's bulletproof. He cusses us out daily and tells us where to go and endangers the other members of the household. He tells us he doesn't have to follow our rules (despite the fact that we're paying the bills and own the house) and causes problems every day. He tells us, his parents who have raised him, he doesn't need us, doesn't love us, doesn't want us. Finally he decides to rebel and leave (or he his kicked out of the house for being too divisive).
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Well I was a teen and my mom still never left me :)
Man sounds like you knew some rotten teens. Many are nothing like that. Being of such limited years I know this :)
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No. He reaps what he sows. As long as he continues to exhibit that attitude, he has no right to expect his parents to have anything to do with him. They didn't disown him-- he disowned them. And if he calls and says, "Dad, I got drunk and they threw me in jail. Come and bail me out,"... the dad will likely let this little rebellious twit STAY in jail.
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I've never in my life met a parent like the one you describe.