Board Thread:Highschool of the Dead Discussion/@comment-187.172.106.123-20130614045635/@comment-26836417-20151101034252

Okay, but lets put this into another situation.

A mother of two gets fired from her job, and her eldest child tries to console and comfort her with displays of affection and words of enouragement. The kid says "Don't worry, Mommy, i'm sure you'll get another job" and she yells at him/her and takes her frustration out on the child by berating and beating him/her. The child still loves it's mother, but distances itself from her as it no longer know's what will set it's mother off. Mommy gets a new job, but doesn't see her own faults in the situation that lead to her relationship between her and her eldest child becoming strained. She then decides to ignore her eldest child, and show heavy favoritism towards her youngest.

Should "Mommy" be surprised when her eldest child doesn't want to be around her,  and is it fair for the kid to be punished for distancing itself from an abusive parent?

Though these scenarios are on different scales of severity, I think that it's safe to say that it's not fair to expect someone to stick around when you treat them poorly.