Does age help make a good parent? Or bad?
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It's said that the ideal parents (child rearers not child bearers of course) are the grandparents. The child bearers (parents) have their own messed up lives to deal with and are still learning and evolving, with conflicting thoughts and actions. On the other hand, grandparents have gone past that age and are quite stable in their lives to be able to bring up children who are in an impressionable age. Side: Yes
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What makes a good or bad parent is in their behavior, beliefs, actions, mental state, maturity, sense of responsibility, etc. The hope/ideal is that with age comes wisdom, comes learning, comes mental growth. But age does not guarantee a particular set of beliefs, maturity, wisdom, growth or anything else of those qualities. It's simply an ideal. To prove this, pick any age and tell me the exact mental state and beliefs of this person. Then demonstrate that all (let's say...) 40 years olds believe "this" and "that", but 38 year olds don't. Therefore I'm not about to rely on it as a determining factor for whether a parent is "good" or "bad". Side: No
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