seems to me like a lot of "my kids will never be online" types would be better served by not making their child's lives so miserable and controlled that they're desperate to run off with the first weirdo who claims to provide them an out

my parents came as close to this approach as they could, only lying about needing it for homework let me watch the Internet's healthiest era https://twitter.com/GlitchesBrew/status/1300221891647397890?s=20

it only made me wish death upon them, and now you're all stuck with me

please don't talk about how you plan to commit child abuse in such smug tones

some of us had to live through what you're gonna do to live out your power fantasy

sometimes abuse isn't touching your kid, it's making constant jokes about how you hope they live in their basement and interfering with every interest, internship, online friendship and LDR they ever had until they're out of credentials and have had no social experience at 27

using your child for emotional closeness, treating them like a possession, can be asexual and nonviolent, can look like you're giving them opportunities as you force them to take the ones that traumatize them

it's still abuse