I understand where you're coming from. It's a bit ethnocentric to believe that moving out is an option for all peoples.
Moving out really is the easy solution in "western" cultures (you forgot places in the Southern Hemisphere, like New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa). And the majority of users on this site are from those western cultures.
Maybe in situations where moving out is clearly not an option, accepting the parent's unintentional demeaning behaviour, while simply acting like an autonomous adult, is the way to "retrain" the parents into treating them better. Otherwise, perhaps it might be advantageous to have a heartfelt discussion with them. It would really all depend on what culture it is and what the boundaries of the parent-child relationship are within that specific culture.
IIN that I think that family issues are not resolved by "moving out"?
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I understand where you're coming from. It's a bit ethnocentric to believe that moving out is an option for all peoples.
Moving out really is the easy solution in "western" cultures (you forgot places in the Southern Hemisphere, like New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa). And the majority of users on this site are from those western cultures.
Maybe in situations where moving out is clearly not an option, accepting the parent's unintentional demeaning behaviour, while simply acting like an autonomous adult, is the way to "retrain" the parents into treating them better. Otherwise, perhaps it might be advantageous to have a heartfelt discussion with them. It would really all depend on what culture it is and what the boundaries of the parent-child relationship are within that specific culture.