![Carola68 is the author of this picture/Source: Pixabay](https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2020/03/13/21/53/concentration-4929210_1280.jpg) ## 1. The Bitter And Brutal Reality Of Self-Serving Parents I realize that many of you out there on the Hive writing platform are either from the early part of the Millennial Generation or from Generation Z, and your father is nowhere near old age yet. That is, unless your father procreated you late in life. If you are one of my followers, you probably realize by now that I am someone who strongly supports forced heirship laws in every state and territorial jurisdiction of the United States and worldwide for that matter. I feel that if anyone would ever entertain the notion of disinheriting their own children, they should not breed them in the first place. Now, I would first like to clarify that I am someone who would never stick my mother in a nursing home in a million years, even if someone paid me a billion dollars to do so. Those places are awful and treacherous, and I am skeptical to believe that they actually offer the kind of care that aging adults need. My mother has always been a good parent to me throughout the years, even though she and I have not always agreed on every single, solitary thing. If she lives to be 117 years old, she will always be able to depend on me to come running to her and take care of her whenever that day should arrive. Anyhow, I'd like to show you something very interesting herein. Below are two scripted videos in which two different 96-year-old men claim that their seven kids abandoned them 15 years ago because of a misunderstanding over money. I state that these videos are scripted, because you'll notice that both of them are virtually identical in verbal content. A 96-Year-Old Man With A British-Sounding Accent Tells His Story About His Adult Kids Forcing Him Into A Nursing Homehttps://youtu.be/x4CfzWMEKsA?si=NW6ftxzxBBl8Mw0W A 96-Year-Old Man With An American Accent Tells His Identical Story About His Adult Kids Forcing Him Into A Nursing Homehttps://youtu.be/riC7D815C2Q?si=lJSL8bJrk96CA1FY The titles of both of these YouTube videos are different, but almost everything these men say in their respective videos are identical. The names of their respective wives and their respective children are the same. The dates of major events in their respective lives are identical. Both of these men claim to be in Room 7 of Greenfield Manor in Pennsylvania here in the United States. Wow. Are they roommates? Well, they wouldn't be roommates, because I did research and found out that a Greenfield Manor in Pennsylvania does not exist. LOL! I'm not claiming that both of these videos are completely fake. Well, then again, it is somewhat suspicious that I have identified some of the information in them as being false. The 96-year-old man in the last video looks as though he is generated by artificial intelligence ("AI-generated"). If both of these videos were authentic and genuine, my heart would go out to both of these old men. However, there are too many peculiarities about them for me not to suspect that both of these videos are bogus. Now, I completely get it. If your father or mother were good to you when you were growing up and they raised you the best way that they could do so, then don't go shoving them into a nursing home when they get to be old and can no longer take care of themselves. If you have kids, you would never want them to do anything like that to you once you get to be old. Nevertheless, there is the other side of this same equation that seldom ever receives the kind of attention that it so deserves. I'm describing abusive parents who disinherit their adult children in their last will and testament or the likes and why I strongly feel that every jurisdiction of the United States direly needs forced heirship laws to prohibit any parent from cutting their own offspring out of their will under any circumstances. I realize that this is a sensitive topic that many people don't like to discuss, but our nation currently has a serious problem with homelessness and poverty; and I strongly believe that allowing abusive parents to disinherit their own kids is greatly to blame for it. I don't care what any of these older generations have to say about their adult kids seeing them as walking ATMs. Nobody should be procreating kids if they're going to condition them to be poor and miserable. ## 2. The Disgrace Of Both The Silent Generation And The Baby Boomer Generation I'm not looking to start a war among all the generations here in the United States. I understand that every generation has its good apples and bad apples. However, I will not remain silent about the fact that kids who had parents from either the Baby Boomer Generation or the Silent Generation are the ones who suffered the most child abuse and incest at the hands of their parents and whom the criminal justice system and court system failed the most here in the so-called land of milk and honey. If you are familiarized with American history from a more societal standpoint, you will know that the 1970s and preceding decades were playgrounds for child abuse and child exploitation for parents who chose to engage in such atrocities against their own offspring. Every time I come across a video like the one below on YouTube or anywhere on the Internet, I feel like ringing that person's neck and telling him what a piece of scourge he is. An 81-Year-Old Man Named Bill Announces That He Has Disinherited All Of His Adult Children And Grandchildrenhttps://youtu.be/nNucscgJSFQ?si=oEp8DCcMb4QVVqy_ Does this idiot not know what the current situation is in this nation with the topsy-turvy job market and the housing crisis? Artificial Intelligence ("AI") is replacing most every job that was once available. Homelessness and poverty are everywhere in the United States because of it. Only charlatans like Dr. Joshua Coleman and Dr. Park Elliott Dietz would likely endorse Bill's decision and even give him a standing ovation for it. My philosophy is that if he feels so paranoid about how his adult kids and grandchildren feel about him, then he should have had a vasectomy immediately after he got married. He had no business fathering children. Most of the people in the comments section to his video are equally as stupid as he is insofar as they give him a love fest. They go as far as posting that they're going to disinherit their own children and grandchildren. What a disgrace that parents from both the Baby Boomer Generation and the Silent Generation have turned out to be throughout the decades. Here is the elephant in the room. Anyone who has followed the news for a substantial period of time knows what kind of men José Menendez and Joel Steinberg were. They're the very reasons that our nation's elected officials need to abolish parental testamentary freedom altogether. If you have either read Christina Crawford's book titled *Mommie Dearest* or have seen the 1981 film under the same title, I think you will agree with that no parent has any right to cut their own children out of their will. If I were friends with Bill's adult children, I would be recommending that they stick him in a nursing home and get themselves each declared as his durable power of attorney so that they can gain control of his money before they no longer have access to it at all once he dies. I may seem like a cold individual, but I absolutely hate parents that abuse their children and then disinherit them later on. I'm not a major fan of Dr. Phil McGraw ("Dr. Phil) inasmuch as I view him to be another out-of-touch baby boomer, but even he would not be so callous as to throw his own adult kids under the bus in his last will and testament or the likes. I have discovered that he does love his adult children enough that he would ensure that their financial interests were protected after his death. Fortunately, there were some YouTubers who posted in the comments section to Bill's video that made perfect sense. I'm going to quote some of them herein, because I strongly agree with their logic. In the comments section to Bill's video, a YouTuber who goes by the user name of @caroleckstein3541 posted: > I couldn’t disinherit my children no matter what. YouTuber @caroleckstein3541? If you're reading this article, I want you to know that you're a good person; but you already knew that and so did your kids.😀 In the comments section to Bill's video, a YouTuber who goes by the user name of @drlock978 posted: > I see it different, I didn’t ask to be brought into this world,why was I ? Just so you could fulfill your sexual desires. Did you make something of your life so I don’t have to struggle every day of my life.Did you create a company so I didn’t have to kiss ass or struggle pounding the pavement? No you just thought of your self. Now you would rather give your shit to some stranger or a corrupt organization so they could live the high life. And as for the provider,that was your duty, your the one who brought me into this shit hole world. YouTuber @drlock978? Bravo! Bravo! I give you a loud round of applause. Bill is someone who is to blame for promoting antinatalism in this world. Not that I believe that antinatalism is necessarily a bad thing, but he's only seeing this issue from one standpoint. I'm not claiming that Bill abused or sexually molested his own kids when they were small. However, like so many other parents from his generation, he probably had unrealistic expectations of them. For example, he probably felt that it was their duly obligation to give him grandchildren, when it was never really his choice in the first place. I wouldn't even be surprised if Bill pressured his kids into going to college at their own expense and then shamed them for being saddled with student debt in the long run. He strikes me as a malcontent. In the comments section to Bill's video, a YouTuber who goes by the user name of @vince8436 posted: > I will get whatever mom has when time comes. I encourage her to spend, it's hard but she does spend. We talk daily for at least a couple of minutes. I take her to every doctor's appointment, shopping and sometimes do some shopping if she doesn't feel like going. > I fix things I can at ber house or get someone to do it. Now it does help that I have no family and not full time work anymore. I don't need the money as I saved enough that my retirement next year starts and I can manage. > If there is anything left that she has it will go to help me when I am her age now and need help. But if it all has to be spent for her home health care, well it does. Only time will tell. > I am just fine as long as there is no major down turns. If there is a big one, well it's beyond our control. I have a job with freedom of schedule. But my brain wants me to sleep a lot. It's good I retire soon, I don't think I could work a scheduled job anymore without getting fired. That's my biggest senior problem. > By the way Mom is older than you are YouTuber @vince8436? It's good that you and your mother get along as well as you both do. Unfortunately, it's not that way for everyone, and my article serves the purpose of addressing the issues that surface whenever there is a large estate at hand and an abusive parent decides to hoard the family wealth and waste it on a lost cause to spite his or her own offspring, even posthumously. In the comments section to Bill's video, a YouTuber who goes by the user name of @jamesgavigan4179 posted: > I love my children and will leave them all I have God bless the days that they entered my life My life has been bless by their creation YouTuber @jamesgavigan4179? I wish that all fathers from every generation were like you. Unfortunately, way too many people in Generation X, the Millennial Generation, and Generation Z have suffered abuse and even incest at the hands of their fathers, and their fathers take that one last stab at them by disinheriting them. Our nation needs to change its inheritance laws to keep this injustice from happening. The late Bing Crosby was a violent man with his kids. I remember watching a documentary about him that revealed that he placed a stipulation in his will and last testament so that one of his sons would not have access to his inheritance until he was 62 years of age. Sadly enough, that same son committed suicide before he ever saw the money. If Bill realized that the gap between the haves and the have-nots has grown so wide here in the United States and if he had an actual conscience, he might decide to keep his adult children and his grandchildren in his last will and testament. I'm not stating that he doesn't have the right to enjoy his money while he's still alive, but he shouldn't merely throw his own kids and grandchildren under the bus for when he is no longer alive. In the comments section to Bill's video, a YouTuber who goes by the user name of @harryjones697 posted: > Why do we watch all this crap their just 3rd rate actors that do this sort of thing and adverts, they make me puke I watch so much then ban them YouTuber @harryjones697? You took the words right out of my mouth. I'm not even going to quote Bill's response, because it's nothing more than aimless rhetoric. Also, from reading the background regarding the YouTube channel named "Before Time Runs Out," I did discover that Bill is actually an AI-generated image. However, you know that there is a real person behind that AI-generated image or at least someone who created him, and that same person is probably not a spring chicken, the say the least. Bill probably watches jerks like Dave Ramsey and Dr. John Delony on their podcasts and listens to all of their crap about someone's estate being their choice to whom they wish to leave it. The inheritance laws need to change here in our nation, period. In the comments section to Bill's video, a YouTuber who goes by the user name of @denniswhite5215 posted: > I’m also 80 but let’s be real at our age there are not many good years left. My kids don’t need my help but I will leave them what I can. Surprisingly, Bill actually gave this man a heart as a sort of thumbs-up below his post. Hmmm. Perhaps Bill does have a conscience somewhere inside of him. Otherwise, the only reason that he decided to father children was obviously to validate himself as so many other men from his generation and the Baby Boomer Generation have done. In the comments section to Bill's video, a YouTuber who goes by the user name of @srugel44 posted: > Probably find more dinner companions if you weren't such a bummer, man. Ha. I spent years coaching my own kids in sports and teaching and building them through sports and competition and honor and fair play and work ethic. That worked out for them. Both went to college on sports and came out without debt and proud of themselves for earning it themselves. Many men won't put in the time with their own kids when they are young because it's all about the bills. If that's the world you raised them in, all about the bills, that's what you get buddy. It's all you. At least you acknowledged that somewhat. YouTuber @srugel44? If there were more fathers like you in the Silent Generation and the Baby Boomer Generation, our nation would not be in the trouble that it now is. You raised your kids to be self-sufficient, and, at the same time, you would never allow for them to be homeless and destitute in the event that a tragic life event befell them. You're a loving parent, and you're the very definition of decency. Like so many others from his generation, Bill simply doesn't get it. In the comments section to Bill's video, a YouTuber who goes by the user name of @TraceyL-g7g posted: > A bit harsh. Family is important and a blessing. A fathers love can still be honoured with set monetary gifts to his children so as to help their future lives. Cutting them off entirely just breeds resentment and non love. A good father leads by example, sets good boundaries with his children and enjoys those closest to him. Bill responded to her comment by giving some nonsensical comment about how money doesn't equal love. I agree that money doesn't equal love, but I also don't feel that it is right that a parent can abuse their kids into homelessness and poverty and then subsequently leave them completely out of their last will and testament. Such parents should never have been allowed to breed in the first place. In the comments section to Bill's video, a YouTuber who goes by the user name of @PeterPan-e5b posted: > well, didnt you all want to have kids?? that is having kids!! they´re selfish and bad people!! dont have kids! f-them! i dont have kids and i am the happiest person in the world, i didnt have to sacrifice shit for those selfish creatures that take absolutely everythung from you! money, effortm peace... everything YouTuber @PeterPan-e5b? At least you're brutally honest with yourself. Bill seems to be one of those many parents from his generation who look to be disappointed with their adult children and grandchildren for one reason or another no matter how unjust they're being with them. I'm not even going to quote Bill's reply, because it is devoid of any intellectual meaning. In the comments section to Bill's video, a YouTuber who goes by the user name of @Jkwald57 posted: > If you think that today is the same level playing field for young people that you enjoyed in the 60s and 70s you’re sadly mistaken. Back then a single provider ( usually a man) on a middle class income could afford a home , 2 cars and maybe vacations once or twice a year. In the job market he only competed with other white people as people of color were excluded from the work force for decent jobs. Also no college degree was needed for most entry level jobs.He did not need health insurance as medical pricing was based what people could pay not insurance billing. If you needed elective surgery you would give a down payment to the hospital with a payment schedule for the balance. You didn’t need car insurance because it was not mandatory by law. If you wrecked your car you paid out of pocket but the auto body mechanics billed somewhat based on what the average person could pay. Overall you did not have a system of calculating greedy corporations putting any of the competition out of business so they can fix pricing to their advantage. Things are more difficult for most young people today. A lot of them start out with student loans and debt just to maybe have a chance for a decent job so maybe they could afford the $3000 rent for their apartment.Saving for a down payment for a home virtually impossible. The list goes on and on. You were lucky enough to live in the most prosperous time in the history of the world. Why wouldn’t you want to share it with your children? YouTuber @Jkwald57? You must be from the same generation as I am, because you are one of the few people in the comments section to Bill's video that understands how the way of life in the United States has changed since way back when. Everything is stratified now, and there are very few, if any, stories about Americans working their way from rags to riches, because the powerful, rich elite do everything to ensure that the underprivileged remain at the bottom of the socioeconomic totem pole. If your father has a multi-million-dollar, even multi-billion-dollar, estate, and he was either violent or sexually abusive with you when you were growing up and you were one of the lucky few to avoid the poor house altogether, you have one of a number of choices if he decides to leave you nothing in his last will and testament. You can either hire an attorney to contest the will; or if you wish to save money on legal fees, you can change your last name so that his family name will not carry on from your end. If either one of your parents were violent and abusive with you in some way or another, you probably never got married and started a family inasmuch as you didn't want to bring someone into your family and you didn't want any kids of yours falling prey to your parents' atrocities. If you do have kids and you decide to change your last name after you discover you've inherited nothing, then I guess it's your kids' decision whether or not they wish to continue having the same last name as your father did. If your kids are well-informed about the abuse that you suffered at the hands of your father, I'm sure that they will understand your feelings and they will probably follow suit. In any event, the inheritance laws in the United States are long overdue to be changed so that no parent will be allowed to disinherit a child under any circumstances. ## 3. A Legislative Solution To The Problem I find it interesting how the United States has some of the toughest statutory-rape laws in the world, yet legislatures have done nothing in recent years to stop abusive parents from disinheriting the very same children they have beaten and even raped during their childhood. It makes you question the integrity of the entire child advocacy movement here in our nation. Michael J. Higdon's publication titled "**[Parens Patraie and the Disinherited Child](https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5119&context=wlr)**" describes the doctrine of Parens Patraie, which may offer a solution to the concern over parents disinheriting incest survivors and victims of child abuse. Go to page 659 therein for the specifics on how this doctrine would work in that respect. Parental testamentary freedom in the United States poses a chilling effect on youngsters who wish to report a parent or parents to the authorities for harming and violating them. If an abusive parent disinherits them, it only compounds their problems as they move through adulthood. Interestingly enough, in the above-aforementioned publication, Mr. Higdon stated that: > To understand why, one need only consult the numerous studies that have documented the debilitating harms that result from child abuse — harms that can last a lifetime. Social scientists have broken these harms down into three categories: physical health consequences, psychological consequences, and behavioral consequences. In terms of physical harms, adults who were abused as children — as compared to the general population — have been shown to suffer higher rates of, inter alia, high blood pressure, diabetes, vision problems, heart attacks, bowel disease, and stroke. Psychologically, they also suffer greater incidences of post-traumatic stress, anxiety, attachment disorders, and depression. Finally, adult survivors of child abuse exhibit a number of behavioral consequences, including drug and alcohol dependency, “juvenile delinquency leading to adult criminality[,]” lower educational attainment, and unemployment. Therein Mr. Higdon further stated that: > For adult survivors of child abuse who might be suffering from any of these harms, disinheritance would be particularly harmful given that inheritance might be all the child has to help deal with those consequences — consequences that arose from the harms inflicted upon the child during his or her minority. As noted earlier, the state has a particular interest in protecting minor children from such abuse and neglect. Although incapable of protecting all children at all times from abuse, the state can and should refrain from perpetuating that abuse when it comes in the form of a testamentary document the state is being asked to probate. Arguably, the state may even be required to do so. After all, although reasonable minds might disagree on the precise scope of parens patriae, seemingly all would agree that the state is precluded from acting in such a way as to exacerbate the abuse of a child. Mr. Higdon is exemplary of what a true child advocate should be. Kids would much rather have someone protect their future financial interests and stop their abusive parents from ever cutting them out of their will than for the government to nose into their sex life during their teenage years. Running the risk of being disinherited exposes survivors of incest and child abuse to the vulnerabilities of poverty and homelessness. ![Roses_Street is the author of this picture/Source: Pixabay](https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2024/01/11/08/10/grandfather-8501003_1280.png) ## 4. Final Thoughts The Silent Generation and the Baby Boomer Generation left a terrible mess for the younger generations to clean up. Elected officials from both the Silent Generation and the Baby Boomer Generation are greatly to blame for the problems that the United States is currently facing. Many people from the Silent Generation and the Baby Boomer Generation got married and started a family inasmuch as it was the cool thing for them to do rather than it being something that they really wanted to do. Now we have AI-generated images of older people from those two generations on YouTube and on other similar platforms blaming all the people from the younger generations for the problems that these older people's generations caused. Their narratives are misleading propaganda at best. It is not that younger generations (Generation X, the Millennial Generation, and Generation Z) have completely closed their minds to anything that the older generations sought out to achieve in their younger years. Below is a video of a gentleman born in 1999 who takes an understanding of his parents after his own awakening. YouTuber Life Outrage Describes The Kind Of Understanding He Has Developed For His Parentshttps://youtu.be/9q5Tix8YixY?si=Dx5YZ5D6qac0BUWz At the end of the day, the United States continues to get closer to becoming the spitting image of what the Russian Federation was in 1917 when the peasants were getting ready to uprise against the aristocracy and destroy them so that they could take their riches and property away from them. The well of prosperity has dried up here in the so-called land of opportunity. The United States has vast armed forces and powerful police forces throughout the entire continent, but it's no more immune to civil wars, insurrections, uprisings, or anything else of that nature than the Russian Federation was back in 1917. Old men like Bill are completely clueless about what is about to occur here in the United States in the not-too-distant future if our nation continues on the same trajectory, and he's hardly grounded in reality. He cannot really complain about a problem for which he and others like him are to blame. There are way too many old men who abused and even molested their offspring when they were little kids, and these scoundrels are hoarding family wealth selfishly while these kids whose lives they ruined are scraping to get by and are barely surviving. Now has come the time that the United States must end parental testamentary freedom. If you don't want to become the Bank Of Dad, then the solution for that is plain and simple. Don't father any children. If you do so and you tell them that you're going to disinherit them, don't complain about it if they turn around and stick you in a nursing home and then seek to have themselves each declared to be your durable power of attorney so that they can gain full control over your money and wealth in your final days of life. It happens all the time. **This article is copyright-protected.**

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