A parents job is to nurture their children. This includes helping them to achieve a healthy level of self-confidence, self-respect, compassion for others, and to help them grow as unique independent individuals.
There are parental behaviors that are entirely contrary to those things. Constant criticism, belittling, humiliation, and competing with your child are among these things. Some parents can be sadistic, and they can scar their children such that they are constantly fighting internal demons.
Watching your sibling go out on the roof to possibly jump because they are so distraught, only to see one of your parents in the yard, looking up, telling them to go ahead and jump because they are ‘mental’, is one personal experience. There are many others. They motivated me to never ever put up with that s**t. Conversely they essentially destroyed the spirit of my sibling. I got lucky, and I thank God for what I strongly know was divine intervention in my life.
God bless you. I’m so sorry for what you experienced; and bless your sibling wherever he or she is.
It seems that most of the tough guys and conspiracy theorists on this thread have no idea what the article is actually referring to, which must be hard to imagine for those who have not experienced or witnessed it. Ignorance is self-righteousness around here.
Your nick is well chosen.