Would you be able to forgive your child anything at all?

NJmaverick

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Sat Aug-01-09 08:07 AM
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Would you be able to forgive your child anything at all?

If not, where would the line be?

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backwoodsbob

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Sat Aug-01-09 08:09 AM
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1. I could forgive anything BUT

if he ever hit his mother.

That would get him a 5 minute to pack one way ride.

Other than that I'm pretty forgiving

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Mutley

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Sat Aug-01-09 08:24 AM
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2. I don't have a child, so this is purely speculation

But I imagine I would always love my child no matter what he or she did wrong, but there are some things that would make me permanently angry.

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seemunkee

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Sat Aug-01-09 08:38 AM
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3. Not sure where I would draw the line

and it depends on what you mean by forgive. Murder, robbery, assault(not related to self defense)? Probably not, but that doesn't mean I would necessarily abandon them and it would entirely depend on circumstances. Now if one of them were to become a hateful white supremacist or join the KKK (highly doubtful since they are Jewish but weirder things have happened) I couldn't forgive them that. That would violate every moral ethical value that they were raised with and I would expect them to live by.

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Generic Brad

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Sat Aug-01-09 09:23 AM
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4. Nope. I'm into conditional love

If you do something heinous, unspeakable and with the full intention to hurt someone - buh-bye. I would have a hard time seeing a child do something that qualifies as that, but for an adult child I could see it happening.

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elleng

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Sat Aug-01-09 09:41 AM
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5. Just say 'NO.'

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begin_within

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Sat Aug-01-09 10:45 AM
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6. Killing me.

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JitterbugPerfume

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Sat Aug-01-09 01:11 PM
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7. yes

I would forgive my children

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miss_american_pie

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Sat Aug-01-09 01:13 PM
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8. I'd like to think so

but considering how angry I get when one hits the other, if one were to really intentionally hurt the other? Hard to say.

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Divameow77

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Sat Aug-01-09 02:37 PM
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9. You can love without forgiveness

I like to think that I would still love my boys no matter what they did but I imagine there are things they could do (as adults most likely) that I couldn't forgive.

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Zavulon

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Sat Aug-01-09 05:55 PM
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10. No.

Killing someone in a case where it wasn't anything close to self-defense, raping someone, selling classified materials to a foreign source or dealing drugs to children - I'd wash my hands entirely.

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