Parental Abandonment, A Societal Issue of The 21st Century.

As an adult, I maintained regular, frequent contact by telephone and by personal visits in their homes with both my mother and my father (each lived lives apart from one another) on a consistent basis right up until they died. I did not allow anything to keep me from maintaining contact with them. [I note that my father had absolutely no involvement in my childhood and adolescence other than paying child support; and that it was me who initiated contact with him when I was 23 years old.] Regardless of my leading a very busy life, I made the time for my mother and for my father.

I remember my mother speaking with her mother on the telephone twice each and every day. Most often, the calls took place at 10:00 in the morning and at 7:00 in the evening. Many times, it was just "Hello Ma, I just want to make sure you're okay." Or, something like that.

I cannot understand how any adult son or daughter, who had not been abused, cannot make the time to keep in touch in some form with his or her living mother and father on at least a weekly basis.