- 20.03.2025
Conditional Love: When Parental Expectations Betray Innocence
The child can indeed become an innocent victim of parental neglect if parental expectations, ideas, and inner problems begin to determine the attitude toward the child at the expense of who he truly is. Several texts emphasize that parents often project their own ambitions, unfulfilled dreams, or even complexes onto the child, which leads even an innocent child to feel like an object of condemnation and rejection.