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Originally posted by infinitytrack
And I don't automatically view every child as a brat until proven otherwise, as it seems many here do.
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I think, actually, that many people have seen so much bad behavior, totally unchecked by parents, that this isn't really an unreasonable assumption. Nor is the assumption by singles that all parents think their kids are adored by everyone and that anyone who objects to Billy's sticky fingers being put all over her new skirt is a kid-hating monster entirely baseless.
We'd discussed this before on the FL board: people without kids rarely see decently behaved kids (or good parents trying to get their kids to behave) because parents with the sense to raise their kids decently don't take them to places where people go reasonably expecting to be free of kiddie intrusion. Only the parents with no sense of appropriate parental training or control take their predictably badly-behaved kids there.
Similarly, the responsible parents also end up thinking all singles hate children irrationally, because they are hanging out in places where responsible parents take kids, and therefore see lots of passably behaved children and can't understand people's reactions.
