It's fucked up to cut your offspring off because they criticize you. It's fucked up to cut your offspring off because they question you. It's fucked up to cut your offspring off because they're silently suffering. It's fucked up to cut your offspring off because they're loudly suffering.
When is it ok to cut offspring off? When they are a legitimate threat to your safety. Criticism is not a legitimate threat to your safety. Being questioned is not a legitimate threat to your safety. Witnessing suffering is not a legitimate threat to your safety.
have to find a new Father in something higher and scrape up any good the Mother provided