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Elders Abusing Their Adult Children Who Are Taking Care of Them

Why do elderly parents turn on the child that is trying so hard to take care of them?

Most of us have seen evidence of people being harder on the people they love than they are on strangers or even people they don’t like. One example that comes to my mind is a man that I have known. He was a jolly, good natured “good guy†in public, a salesman by trade, but a totally different person to his family – sullen, often angry and emotionally abusive. I’ve also known a couple of women who have admitted to behaving in a similar manner.

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