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. [1]
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
