@knight_evangel
I wasn't explicitly talking about you, but reading your comments makes me understand your POV.
What you express is your idea of neglect and abuse that you've gained from your childhood and the people around you, however raising a kid is different among every culture. My parents were never there for me and my siblings because they were complete workaholics so I raised my siblings instead, as you'd suspect I didn't have a whole lot of experience and I failed.. a lot, but I constantly asked the people around me how they raised their kids, and that helped but the advice were more like methods instead of the answers I was looking for, I realized slowly that they took over certain personality aspects I had and that how I acted around them influenced them, knowing that made me change my parenting style, eventually realizing that I was glad I cared for them the best I could until they were old enough to care for themselves, instead of the parents that I honestly never see.
I wasn't the best example of a human being, no shit. And their honestly isn't 'the best parenting style' or good parents but kids are mainly influenced by their environment and family, and kids naturally feel what their parents think about them, when a parent are terrifying their kid you know they aren't a good parent no matter how much money they give their kid, because money won't fix your personality when you're older.
I can't claim to know much about parents but I know what family is, and what marika has with her mother isn't family.