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And how very few parents say that to their kids...I don't know, maybe the world is changing as @redrica says, perhaps parents will become better as they go and more open. But at the same time, as @deirdyweirdy points out, our own parents put their own many faults in us and their fears and all that crap...and we tend to turn to what we know and that's the only parenting we've known, so...I don't really know.