#and if they are willing to always drop interests careers friend groups hobbies lifestyles etc etc etc for the sake of a child

[calypsolemon]

thinking about how the expectation that parents must be completely selfless and fully willing to make sacrifices to their own quality and fullness of life in order to be good parents is actually a deeply capitalistic one, and how much it sucks that conversations surrounding parental abuse/ neglect often buy fully into this notion that a parent being unable to cope with such an inhumane lifestyle is an individual failing rather than a systemic one.