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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: from a child than from anyone else, even when the child is not
beloved, because the child is so unmistakably sincere in them.
Our Abandoned Mothers
Take a very common instance of this agonizing incompatibility. A
widow brings up her son to manhood. He meets a strange woman, and
goes off with and marries her, leaving his mother desolate. It does
not occur to him that this is at all hard on her: he does it as a
matter of course, and actually expects his mother to receive, on terms
of special affection, the woman for whom she has been abandoned. If
he shewed any sense of what he was doing, any remorse; if he mingled
his tears with hers and asked her not to think too hardly of him
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