Why Blaming Parents for Children's Choices Harms Everyone
Parents are not solely responsible for everything that happens to their children; absolutist thinking ignores children's autonomy, environmental influences, and developmental factors.
Human brains have an evolved negativity bias that makes people focus on threats, recall negative experiences, and dwell in polarized, catastrophic thinking that impedes growth.
Magical thinking and superstitions are common and usually harmless but become dangerous when they override critical thinking and obstruct confronting reality.