While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn’t because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
What lingers from the parent’s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
Autism is a neurological disorder. It’s not caused by bad parenting. It’s caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain’s computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.
Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960’s, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation’s highways.