A parent is abusive to the child, who grows up with bad learned behavior because of it, which interferes with their ability to hold jobs or relationships.
The parent is now sorry. How much is the parent *obligated* to help with the consequences of the child's emotional problems?
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If you broke your child and they are willing to let you help them, you are obliged to do everything in your power to help them fix themselves.
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Obligated is an odd word here. The reality is if they were that toxic, it is likely they will cause harm in attempting to help. Individuals need to outgrow the pain from parental mistreatment. The best a parent could do in my estimation is accept responsibility for their actions.
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It's almost a certainty that anything they do will make it worse. Some obligations can never be fulfilled.
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I'd be curious to see the same question except the parent wasn't abusive, but the person can't hold jobs or relationships because of inherited genetics, with a history of it in the family. Does the answer change if in 20 years we can pre-screen for this and they didn't?
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'obligated' = punished if they don't?
'help' = pay a mental health professional?
Is the question asking if child abuse should be punished / imply reparations if it's caught after the child has already grown up?
Morally, I think yes. Legally, sounds hard to prove, but yes.
