Do you just randomly wonder about how life would have turned out if your parents were the likes of the king and queen of England? Like how soft and grand your life would be, and also knowing that one day all of this wealth would be transferred to you? This is actually a daydream sort of but newsflash it’s someone’s reality😃
Do we also feel the same way about inheriting the sins or wrongdoings of our parents, just the way we dream about what it would look like to accept inherited crimes, sins or even wrongdoings? Is it something that we can bare?
I believe in the olden days, it was common practice for children to inherit the consequences of the sins of their parents, is it a right or wrong practice especially for children who had no hand or say when their parents committed these sins or offenses?
Personally, I think it is an unjust weight or burden that children are meant to carry, especially when the children weren't accomplices in the crime or wrongdoing committed.
Expecting the children to pay for the sins committed by their parents makes the children have a twisted sense of personal responsibility because they would feel like they are just actors in their own lives, more like their lives have already been scripted for them, they will see no need to shape their lives, after all, they had to atone for sins they didn't commit.
If children are meant to inherit the sins of their parents, they will always have this sense of guilt, self-doubt, shame, lack of confidence, and many more negative feelings that will impact their mental health as children, and we all know how messed up it is to carry around all of these negative feelings, it doesn't create room for growth and improvement in the children that later grow to become adults.
Growing up, there was this family that lived in my hometown, their grandfather was accused of stealing something really important, even though there was no evidence to actually prove that he was the one that stole it, it just that circumstances weren't in his favor and he was accused.
The whole issue happened in the village, so it wasn't resolved, so it kept lingering. The children and grandchildren of the man were indirectly pegged thieves, and subtle jabs were thrown at them, for instance, some women might tell their children to be watchful of their belongings if any of the children or grandchildren of the man were around, insinuating that they could steal your stuff also and this was due to the incident that happened with their old man years ago, is this fair to the children? Absolutely No!
This issue made the members of this particular family shy away from social gatherings and other functions in the village because of the way people regarded them as thieves, so they were usually by themselves.
Even if this had happened a long time ago, they are still being treated unfairly because of something they never knew about, their only crime was being born into the family.
So I think that children should not be the ones atoning for the sins or mistakes of their parents, and we as human beings should not associate the evil committed by parents with the children as it creates a depressing feeling in these children as they aren't being probed for their own doings, but for that of their parents which is unfair.
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