Friday, August 22, 2008

Parental abuse at its extreme

Ever since the news of Nonoi's tragic fate broke in the papers, people have understandably looked at her stepfather with scornful eyes, I believe. This is just an addition to other understated news like relatives molesting or sexually abusing their younger family members. With the most recent one on a mother getting her son to buy drugs for her and physically abusing him when he doesn't looming in the papers, I can't help but question whether the criteria of a parent is clear enough to them.

A parent definitely doesn't do the above. Sexual and physical abuse as well as murder is not love but a betrayal of absolute trust and unconditional love from the child!

If they were parents in an unexpected manner through pre-marital sex, then though they chose the lesser of two evils by not aborting the child, they are really venting their own frustration and resentment on the child. Of course, there are also selfish desires and lustful desires in these cases. In Nonoi's case, perhaps there was a desire for the mother only and she was seen as a burden? This resentment may have been buried deep inside him. I'm just speculating though.

Control is really the key to all of these. Control of emotion, lust and bodily desire for the indulgence in vice, to be more specific.

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