Ask Dr. Helen: Does a Father-Free Home Breed Success — Or Just Power-Hungry Politicians?
As it happens, compensating for inner pain and deprivations or even abuses in early life is often a strong motive for performing well in various endeavors, and just as often a motive for neglecting or exploiting others.
In any case, to recommend it as a way of breeding superior workers in any field is plain stupid.
It’s sort of the broken window theory of economics applied to the human soul.
To take the recommendation just a small step further, for the sake of demonstrating its absurdity, consider that many of the most insightful and compassionate people in the field of psychology and in the arts, are people who suffered neglect and abuse in their early life.
So if we want compassionate and insightful psychologists and artists, the thing to do is to promote the neglect and abuse of children.
Poppycock!
The author is logic-challenged. Or should a say … a dope.
