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Originally posted by LadyMischief@Dec 3 2003, 02:30 PM
I don't believe I said that, but I agree that you can NEVER truly know what parenthood is like, living with a child raising them day in and day out, being responsible for everything.. Potty training, sickness, temper tantrums, all that, until they actually HAVE children. It's like trying to imagine what it's like to live with a life-threatening illness or disease. You can NEVER truly say you know what it's like or can understand the experience unless you have it.
Doesn't mean people without kids can't have opinions, however no one opinion can possibly fit every parental situation. Every child, every family is different. It's easy to judge something based on an opinion, but unless you are fully aware of the situation at hand, that opinion means about as much as the piss I took this morning. Catch my meaning?
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I disagree. A person living with the parents would know exactly what it is to be a parent in the terms you are describing and the manner in which it has been discussed so far. Furthermore, it is logical that they would have had parents themselves, and got an idea about parenting just from being a child. Discounting their opinions on the subject is irrational.
Wherein lies the difference is the emotional attachment to your child. Attempting to quantify THAT part of parenting, and relating THAT issue in the parent/child relationship, you could make a more reasonable statement that the person doesn't know what they are talking about because they have had no real life experience.