Deeply Saddened

[Trainchaser]

My son done something at work (he is not sharing) and the company put him on paid leave for month of April. Today he met with HR and they terminated him. Gave him severance pay (don't know how much). I feel responsible in that he is half my gene pool. He has had mental health issues most of his life. He is 34. I am out of sorts taken this on. Had a bad week already and now this. Quess I gave him my bad genes. Just very sad on verge of depression

[Gardener71]

I think when our kids are having a hard time or things are tough we blame ourselves. We are all only human. I hope things will start getting better.

[Starrlight]

❤️

[012703060610]

You caught my attention here with this topic. I sit and worry about my young kids having their Father's genes and mine. I wish they had their Step Father's genes. Mental health issues all over my side of the family and I am starting conversations with them (in an appropriate way) at ages 11 and 10. My Ex's side is riddled with ADHD issues. They seem to be ok and we cannot hold ourselves accountable for all our kids do or become. However, I greatly empathize with your thought process and am right there with you. We don't want to see our kids go through what we have each been through. We don't want pain for our kids at any stage in life. You must be a great Dad.....you are there for him now and together you will figure out what is best! Try not to blame yourself....it is really easy to do. Too many factors go into any one single event.

[Midori]

If you brought him up to be honest and law abiding you have nothing to chastise yourself with.

If he will talk to you, ask him what happened; Could be somebody just with a grudge against him, who made something up to get him fired. If his mental difficulty has been used against him remember he could have Disablement immunity. Consult a lawyer.

It is Not Your Fault in any way.

Cheers, Midori

[KrierandRosie]

All f us get fired. He needs to think about why he was fired and fix that for the future.

[EarthSitter1]

Most parents blame themselves at one time or another for something their kid has done, it’s part of being a loving caring parent💛

But that doesn’t mean blaming yourself is right or true.

At the moment it’s your support he’ll need to sort out how he moves on from this, I sincerely wish you all the best.