Love is NOT enough

[pluribus_adelos]

I sometimes think about children I've seen on TV that have become so morbidly obese they cannot even leave their rooms. My first thought is - how is it that someone who can't get to the kitchen keeps getting enough food to perpetuate this problem?!?! Shouldn't this be self-correcting at some point? The answer seems to always be found in a "loving"

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[zcatcurious]

In the same category, I would include the children who are brought up to think that they have a right to everything: whenever they want something, they demand it and their parents surrender it, either 'out of love', or in order to avoid a fight (particularly true of single parents).

In both cases, the children grow up without learning to adjust to limitations, to restraints, and so they become corrupt individuals, people who believe that their own desire is the paramount value.

How to have criminal children, step one: give them everything that they ever want.