Would you ever disown your son/daughter?

[Vincent]

Would you ever seriously disown one of your children?

[John Dibble]

It would take something very bad to make me disown a child. I say 'yes', but I'm not sure exactly what it would take for it to happen.

[A18]

Of course. That child gets what he/she deserves if he/she does something to piss me off that much.

Of course, if he/she changed his/her ways, I would happily 'un-disown' that child.

[ian]

No.

[Ebowed]

No.

[Cashcow]

No, because I know what it's like to love someone, as should most of you.

[Gabu]

I doubt it.

[Joe Kakistocracy]

I wouldn't.

[patrick1]

Yes, if they killed an innocent person, molested a kid or raped someone-. I would hope that as a parent I would never raise such a monster but sometimes you just have a bad egg.  From everything Ive read Jeffrey Dahmer's parents were pretty good people.

[Cashcow]

Yes, if they killed an innocent person, molested a kid or raped someone-. I would hope that as a parent I would never raise such a monster but sometimes you just have a bad egg.  From everything Ive read Jeffrey Dahmer's parents were pretty good people.

And they didn't disown him, either.

[patrick1]

Yes, if they killed an innocent person, molested a kid or raped someone-. I would hope that as a parent I would never raise such a monster but sometimes you just have a bad egg.  From everything Ive read Jeffrey Dahmer's parents were pretty good people.

And they didn't disown him, either.

I would though.

[dazzleman]

I assume that disown means cut off all contact and force your child out of your life.

I answered yes, because you can never say never, but the circumstances would be very limited.

If I had a kid who was violent and abusive to me or his mother, or others in the family, and was not willing to change his behavior, I would force him out until he dealt with the problem.  The disowning would not necessarily be permanent, but until whatever the problem was was corrected.

Some people are forced to disown children or other family members when they have hard-core drug addiction problems, and get violent with, or steal from, their own family.  I know a family who lost their home because of their son's drug habit.  There does sometimes come a point, even with your own child, at which you simply can't live with the child's behavior, and if he/she refuses to get the needed help, the only option is severance of the relationship.  It's a terrible thing, but it does happen.

[Jake]

If they did something to deserve it, like committ a violent crime, etc, I'd disown him/her.

[MaC]

only if I felt like my personal safety was threatened by them.  Before that I would have them put in a mental hospital and hope that it would never get that far in the first place.  And even after disowning them I would try my best to find some person or organization who would take care of them and meet their needs, and still visit them and take care for them.

[??????????]

Talk about beating a dead horse.

[The Duke]

If they did something bad enough.

[opebo]

Absolutely not!  To reproduce includes the obligation to leave ones estate to ones offspring.

[Bono]

To quote Warren buffet: "I believe in giving them enough for them to do something, but not enough for them to do nothing."

[dazzleman]

To quote Warren buffet: "I believe in giving them enough for them to do something, but not enough for them to do nothing."

That's a good philosophy.  As we've seen, doing nothing due to an inheritance tends to produce crazy ways of thinking.....

[opebo]

To quote Warren buffet: "I believe in giving them enough for them to do something, but not enough for them to do nothing."

That's a good philosophy.  As we've seen, doing nothing due to an inheritance tends to produce crazy ways of thinking.....

Warren Buffet is an ass.

Why produce another downtrodden working class to be trapped forever on a treadmill of work?  Talk about an argument for abortion.