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@punishmenthurts @hellomiakoda No need to be ashamed for family members. We don't get to choose where we come from, only where we go. And even there, starting conditions matter.

It's just that, as a mother, I have no understanding whatsoever how you can't talk about this with your child for whom it is obviously life-changing information. None.

Being so concerned with keeping face and protecting your own ego that they'd rather hurt their own offspring than admit a mistake - one that they probably didn't even know was a mistake at the time!

This is a pattern I see in abundance in the post-war generations, and it's probably just a human thing... But I do not get it. I mean I get that admitting errors is hard and egos are brittle. But within a family we should do better.