SOMETHING TO PONDER

From The Girl Who Came Back , by Kerry Wilkinson:

"What sort of person wants their own daughter to give away a grandchild? How is that a thing? It's easy to abdicate responsibility by saying it's a generational thing, that isn't an excuse, not when other people's lives are involved. If so, where does it end? Slave masters were misunderstood do-gooders trying to give immigrants a purpose? Ku Klux Klan members didn't know any different? Sometimes a line has to be drawn to say that it's not about generations or a change in attitudes. It isn't younger people versus older, men against women or straight versus gay. It's about arseholes being arseholes."

Not sure I agree with the wording of that last phrase, I'd be more measured, but the sentiment is the same I guess. However you put it though, it's clear that such a thing blights the lives of everyone concerned.