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"...a feeling society ought to let you indulge." Everyone has a limit, until you've been pushed past it (and even after), you don't know exactly where it is, and of course it can change. Every child will have a different impact on your limits, I can certainly understand how a person could be pushed past their limits, by their own child and more-so a relatively unknown child, and I have a lot of sympathy for people in those situations (even the most horrific ones). As for "society", "they", give parents very little support, it may be different for foster parents but without researching much, I don't have much faith. Whether society "ought" to be setup this way, that's a hard one, make it too easy and we self-select for a bunch of massive families with an endless bill of support. My feel is we're erring too much on the side of a lack of support, especially less "social" (e.g. scandinavian countries) focused countries such as USA, UK, AU. |