Originally Posted by filtherton

There is no such thing as a good parent. There are only differing degrees that exist in reference to the amount of emotional, social, and financial scarring that ensue between the child's birth and whenever they stop talking to you. Even then, if your child comes out relatively unscathed, the fact that they came out relatively unscathed says absolutely nothing definitively about your skills as a parent. Nothing at all. All it says is that you didn't fuck things up, or if you did, other circumstances existed that canceled your fucking up of things out.

Trent dilfer has a superbowl ring. It's just like that.

So, the next time you feel like you have something compelling to say concerning the abilities of other people to raise their children, remember that they're probably doing the best they can, and that even if they weren't, you most likely don't actually know enough about their particular situation to talk about the color of their drapes, much less the quality of their child raising abilities, and even if you did, you don't have a fucking clue what it means to be a good parent in any kind of meaningful sense of the word.