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[onceoldone.livejournal.com]

Parents: what are you without them?

Comments

[toomuchlikedad.livejournal.com]

An orphan?

[deep-red-bells.livejournal.com]

What she said.

[onceoldone.livejournal.com]

What I mean to ask is, are parents necessary?

[toomuchlikedad.livejournal.com]

No. Many people aren't raised by their parents.

[oreily-97p904.livejournal.com]

A lot fucking happier.

[onceoldone.livejournal.com]

How so?

[oreily-97p904.livejournal.com]

If you met my father, you wouldn't have to ask. The guy's a prick.

[star-core.livejournal.com]

I didn't live with my parents for very long.

[onceoldone.livejournal.com]

Does that change things?

[star-core.livejournal.com]

No. It's far from the worst thing that has happened to me.

[adalia-krause.livejournal.com]

An orphan.

[onceoldone.livejournal.com]

Even if they are alive, yet out of your life?

[adalia-krause.livejournal.com]

How are you defining parent? If you are an adult it does not matter as much. You are just disconnected from your parents. I am sure it happens quite often.

[firemotion.livejournal.com]

Alone.

[onceoldone.livejournal.com]

Why is that?

[firemotion.livejournal.com]

Parents, and in some cases siblings, constitute a family. If you don't have that, you're on your own.

[freaks-myword.livejournal.com]

A hell of a lot better.

[onceoldone.livejournal.com]

So I have heard. Why, then, are they given such importance?

[freaks-myword.livejournal.com]

Well, show me a guy with issues and I'll show you the parents who messed him up.

[campjesus]

Well-adjusted?

[onceoldone.livejournal.com]

Another response that lessens the importance of parents.

[from-lies.livejournal.com]

[doesn't look at her]

Empty.

[onceoldone.livejournal.com]

One can be empty with them as well, no?

[corinthiancharm.livejournal.com]

Currently alone.

[onceoldone.livejournal.com]

Why only currently?