MonDie

I never understood contempt towards fathers until my own father blew threw $160,000 of inheritance while I was starving and freezing to death in a dilapidated crap-hole. I think for most people it has to do with money, and the father trying to leave their child stranded via deprivation of money for basic needs. I also think that, in most cases, the father does this intentionally out of resentment for the mother.

yes,children are often conduits for estranged parent's malice towards their partner.

Don't dismiss the paranoid so quickly. They learned first-hand for the sake of others, so listen.

"Paranoidea", they called us, and then we fell down and they kicked us and got angrier.