User:Elbow-Greased Strongman/Parenting

“	It's nice to have kids.	”
Borb's rationale for having children, as told to Chris for a high-school assignment.

Bob and Barb's (often collectively referred to as "Borb" by trolls and observers) parenting of Chris is an important factor in how he ended up the way he did.

Borb and their previous children

Cole

“	I have everything that I have ever wanted except a mother's love.	”
Cole Smithey

Barb believes Cole's bitterness towards her is rooted in rumors from nefarious family members and brain damage from a head injury he suffered as a child.

taking note of how he had gone out of his way to visit her on several occasions

and Cole claimed to have "never met a meaner or more reprehensible Republican cur than Bob"

Carol and David Alan

Unlike Cole, neither of Bob's biological children have ever divulged information about their childhoods

said he "no friendship" from them in 1979 in his first letter to Chris

Carol was, for whatever reason, distant enough to not attend his funeral

Bob and Chris

Bob has generally been seen as the better of Chris's parents by onlookers, though this may be damning him with faint praise.

several well-known instances of him taking a firmer hand in dealing with Chris

Chris often had trouble getting along with his father and would claim Bob was prone to starting "more arguments than flies in a garbage dump" (almost always with that exact wording).

Barb and Chris

Barb was the parent Chris was closer to (too close, as it ended up being)

After Bob's death

Kiwi Farms posts (Marvin)#Barb and Chris

leading Marvin to describe Chris as her "hand servant", running errands and doing chores for her

scared of her despite her advanced age

Phases of parenting

Early childhood (1982 – 198?)

Cole alleged that Borb would regularly leave Chris alone in the care of an 'unfit babysitter'