Chris Collins reflects on being raised in a generation where parental divorce and self-prioritization became common. He argues many people grew up in "broken" homes, suggests parents today often prioritized themselves over children (unlike earlier generations), and encourages listeners to inventory how childhood family structure shaped their beliefs and current functioning.
There's no license or test. You have to get to become a parent. Anybody can become a parent. And I don't think they were meant to be raised in a broken home, but most of us are. I came from the first generation where the parents prioritize themselves over the kids. Previous to my generation, parents would stay together for the kids. That was all over. It was all over by the time I was born. Clearly, most of the kids that I grew up with, the parents were divorced or got a divorce. It was rare that mom and dad were staying together. So, you know, you got to do an inventory of that and think about how your childhood affected your beliefs and how much of that is influencing the way you function in the world.
