Developing a sane relationship to our own past is a crucial factor in enabling us to avoid the common mistakes of "bad parenting".

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“Given how important it is to be properly loved by one’s parents in order to have an emotionally sane grownup life, one may wonder with some urgency why – in cases that range from the regrettable to the truly tragic – the process can go so wrong. Why do some parents – who might in other areas be decent and thoughtful characters – fail so badly at being able to love the small people they have brought into the world?”

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