When a child grows up, he or she always idolises his or her father. But as time goes on, things change drastically, well, usually drastically. As a child, the father looks after its interests. The child being a child accepts what is being done for it. With time, as the child sees more of this world, forms its own view of it. Strangely, this view is radically different from the view of the person who gave them that life and that freedom to actually view this world.
A child is inquisitive. The father considers the childs questions as an opportunity for it to grow. But the same inqusitiveness comes forth as stubbornness and bull headedness when the child is all grown up. With his or her own views, this grown up now doesn’t conform to what his or her father expected him or her to be. They become their own person, just as their dad wanted them to be, but not exactly as they wanted them to be.
Earlier, the child would do things to please its father, albeit unknowingly. This would naturally please the father. But when this pleasing stops the trouble begins. Being raised by the same man, they become similar to them. Just as stubborn and just as pig headed. The fathers want their children to be the kind of person they want them to be. Does it make them wrong? Does it breach the laws of fatherhood? When the child is born, does the father say that my child would be a certain way? They don’t love the child any less if he or she is not. There is just a lot of conflict.
One father demands his son to stop meeting his friends of eight years just because they are of a different faith. The same father taught his son about religious tolerance. Hypocritical, I know. Another father wants his daughter to get married to someone from the same caste. Wasn't the caste system abolished a zillion years ago?
Enough of the dad bashing don’t you think. 