Norway Massacre -- A Parent's Responsibility?

[Muzna]

About his son…

“I don’t feel like his father,” said former diplomat Jens David Breivik from his secluded home in southern France. “How could he just stand there and kill so many innocent people and just seem to think that what he did was OK? He should have taken his own life too. That’s what he should have done.”

Breivik said he first learned the news of his son’s attacks from media websites. “I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was totally paralyzing and I couldn’t really understand it.”

“I will have to live with this shame for the rest of my life. People will always link me with him,” he said.

Jens David Breivik said he had severed all contact with his son in 1995 when the latter was 16."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/court-says-norway-gunman-arraigned-closed-hearing-102730034.html

I wonder if this could have been prevented if he had not severed all contact with his son…

[TLK]

Re: Norway Massacre -- A Parent's Responsibility?

But the article did not say why he severed his contacts with him. If it was because of the son's rebellious beleif then yes, father could have taken a different route, but if it was because of disobedience from son then its another story.

[sazzie]

Re: Norway Massacre -- A Parent's Responsibility?

The guy severing ties with his son would definetly have had an impact on him but i dont think that takes away from him being responsible for the choices he made of being hateful and murdering innocents.