Is a parent responsible for her childs death if.........?

Question

she mentally abuses the child from her early teens and the teen develops mental problems and then this adult child turns to drugs to escape her misery then as a young adult this child dies from a drug overdose then isn't the parent responsible for messing up their mind and making them mentally ill and drug dependent then shouldn't God punish the parent and take the child to heaven even though they died in sin.Parents can destroy their children.This mother was depressed.Should the mother be punished and not the child.

Now remember my dear friends if someone is mentally ill from whatever reason would a loving God send them to hell if their mind is not normal.Age has nothing to do with accountability a clear logical mind does

Answer 1

In part, maybe. However, there is a point in your life when you should take responsibility for your own life. You have the ability to separate yourself from your parents and get your own head straight again.

God doesn't punish anybody, because he doesn't exist. Heaven doesn't exist either, neither does Hell. You're really on your own in this. You have your own life to live and you have to figure out for yourself how you want to live it.

Answer 2

I'm sure at one time or another someone had to stop and try to tell the girl about Jesus. If the girl has never heard anything about Jesus then that, in my opinion, should be taken into account. And if this girl has never heard about Jesus, then every person this girl came in contact with has sinned and should share some of the responsibility. And for the mom mentally abusing the girl since her early teens, do you know the whole story? Teenagers tend to get out of control and are hard to deal with. If a parent tells a teenager that they can not have something or go somewhere, naturally the teenager is going to rebel. So is the misery this girl experienced due to mental abuse or total rebellion? If this girl was in misery, there are alternatives to using drugs. Go to church, see a counselor, confide in the right friends. Sure parents aren't always perfect, but neither are kids. If this girl died of an overdose as an adult, she knew right from wrong.

Answer 3

Elizabeth

I don't know if this question is based on an actual event or is hypothetical. It's perfectly possible that in this case the mother was just as much a victim of circumstances as her daughter. It seems to me that for a mother to lose a child is punishment enough. I think that God will be compassionate to both the mother and the daughter.

Best wishes, J

Answer 4

Umm, whatever happened to compassion?

The idea of a supernatural punisher is fatuous and infantile, as this case demonstrates. We are ultimately responsible for our own actions, even though we don't have much control over many of the influences in our lives.

Life is not fair, and some of us have more than our fair share of suffering. This is where compassion is so important.

I'm not a Christian myself, but I'm staggered that so few self described Christians seem to get this, when this is basically the central thing that Jesus was trying to teach. It permeates everything he is recorded as saying. Why don't people get this?

Answer 5

The reason the blame game doesn't work for me is that the depressed mother who mentally abused her child most likely had been abused herself. So then we could blame the grandparents. But since they were probably abused, we'd have to blame their parents, and so on. Seems to me that a better way is to find ways of intervening with high-risk kids to make sure fewer of them fall through the cracks like this.

Answer 6

no, we all have till adulthood to sort out the truth from all the bs that people try to run on us, if you fail to do so during that time you are to blame.

most of the time i hear people (especially women) say "mental abuse" or "emotional abuse" they are whining about things that most people dont really pay attention to.

the reality is that nobodys words can force anything on anyone, its always a choice how much merit you give to someone elses ideas.

we all get put down, and people try all kinds of crap. Im not really sure God punishes anyway, but if you want to share in heaven then you have to put your faith in God, not in the words of a "depressed" person. it is a choice.

we are all depressed lol

Answer 7

I undergo in innovations an identical case some years back. The courts stepped in yet by using then it replaced into too late and the lady died. the dad and mom have been charged and sent to prison. This looks to happen greater then we predict of. Why did no longer protecting centers step in? The law enforcement officials did no longer may be the identifying ingredient.

Answer 8

the parent is responsible.however if the child has not accepted Jesus as their Savior then i am sorry but they wont get into Heaven.if the parent someday finds out that there is still hope for her...then she will change and if she accepts Jesus as her Savior she has a place in Heaven.
Jesus himself said that unless u become born again u cant enter the Kingdom of God.

Answer 9

How a person turns out is nurture AND nature. The parents should be held accountable to a point, but generally not all the way.

It's interesting that you speak of mental abuse though. Many believe that fundamental religious teachings are a form of mental abuse.

Answer 10

It really depends. The parent herself may have been mentally abused. This is often the case -- abusive parents were often abused themselves when they were children.

This doesn't totally excuse their abusive behavior, of course, but it is to some extent a mitigating factor.

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