Dex-chan lover
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It's likely never going to happen though. Respect for elders/authority is so highly ingrained and prioritized that as long as the parents have something that even only approaches the tiniest fractional amount of a reasonable explanation/excuse, they're going to get off with just an admission that they might've caused harm and immediate forgiveness from everyone else.
Like the series I just described had the dad basically claim that it was his right to treat his daughter however he wanted even though most of his abuse was the result of him taking her attempts to cheer him up after the death of his wife badly (like she cooked her dad's favorite dish and he threw it against the wall and accused her of trying to taunt him about his wife being dead and keep him in pain) and he was more than willing to beat her so viciously that she would essentially never heal properly so that people would stay away from her and completely destroy the career and life prospects of the guy that helped her because in the dad's mind he had no right to get in the way of him treating his daughter how he wished. He gets a little bit of physical pushback when he tries to go after the other guy and flees the house. While he's out some hoodlums jump him and in the scuffle he accidentally kills one of them and gets arrested for it. From here that arrest is treated like karma and the best possible outcome because he serves jail time but it doesn't have to come to light that he's an abusive scumbag who beat his daughter to the point of severely injuring her. She nor no one else presses charges for the abuse, and neither she nor the MC who was protecting her do so much as confront him about how unforgivably terrible it was for him to raise a hand to his own child, especially for as selfishly stupid of a non-reason as he had.
But everyone is satisfied by this because it's more important that both MCs apparently forgive him for being an absolutely deplorable bastard while he's sort of penitent without actually directly apologizing for even a fraction of what he did other than saying something like "I made mistakes"
This is obviously the most extreme example of this sort of behavior, but it is the storytelling norm for manga if not a cultural norm for Japan itself. It's highly unlikely that it changes any time soon.
