Allowing for cultural relativism, there are still certain actions that make one a shitty parent no matter where in the world they are. Dropping a baby deliberately and repeatedly on its head, for example. Refusing to change, wash or feed it. Selling it on the black market seems like an especially egregious one, until the possibility that the child might be better off is factored in.
Also eligible for the list of shame is giving a child his first cigarette at 18 months, then encouraging his smoking habit, so that by the age of two he’s a chain smoker who throws a tantrum if he doesn’t get a nicotine fix.
‘I’m not worried about his health, he looks healthy,’ shrugged the boy’s father Mohammad Rizal.‘He cries and throws tantrums when we don’t let him smoke. He’s addicted.’
“So he’ll get lung cancer at the age of 6. That’s normal, right?”
