Could you forgive your child if he or she tried to injure or kill you intentionally?

I am not sure if I could forgive an attempt to kill me. For if I did, how could I ever again be sure that whatever event triggered my child to feel such hatred towards me to be overcome by obsessive thoughts of murdering her/his own parent, would not at some point in the future surface once again. What if during a consequent attempt he/she succeeded?

I think I would find my child the appropriate help for his/her mental state, but I would also ensure to keep my distance from him/her until my child showed signs of improvement. However, even at that point I would still be too insecure to trust that he/she has fully recovered from his/her mental condition and would not intend to harm me again. This would be a sad but irreversible situation and would likely completely destroy my relationship with my child.

While I am willing to die for my children, it would have to be under circumstances that I would be saving their own lives, not to have to die at the hands of my children. I do have enough respect for my own life to know the difference.

Trying to kill someone is not teen angst. It means there is something seriously wrong with the teen. I like to think that I'd forgive my daughter for anything no matter what.

If she tried to kill me I would get her help quickly because there's a good chance she'll try to kill someone again and it could quite possibly be me. I've never heard of someone saying they wanted to kill their parents or anyone else when they were younger but they grew out of it. That's just not normal.

My daughter is 15. She has not tried to set me on fire. I was a teen once, as much as I hated mom, I never tried to set her on fire - or kill her by other means - so this is hardly teenage angst.

I would like to add what the heck is an 11 year old doing with a 15 year old boyfriend - clearly there is something wrong there. And it was he who tried to kill the mom, not her own kid. I would forgive my kid for accidentally breaking my favorite dishes, anything intentionally cruel - or twisted, such as trying to kill me, is unforgivable.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.