Do No Harm

I was watching an episode of House entitled “Parents” the other day and found parallels between House’s concept of parents damaging their kids and Noboru and his friends’ ideology that fathers are “the vilest things on earth” (167).

In the episode of House, Gregory House tries to validate his theory that “all parents screw up their kids”. Obviously, abusive and neglectful parenting may result in mental and emotional distress in children. House also discovers, however, that Adams’ parent’s “failure to screw her up is what really screwed her up”. Adams claims that being the only one among her peers to have two loving and understanding parents led her to feel that being dysfunctional made a person deeper; she soon began to romanticize dysfunction.  Although this may be an unusual example, it proves that it is inevitable for parents to damage their children.

 This is similar to Noboru and his friends’ ideology. The chief says, “There are no such things as a good father because the role itself is bad. Strict fathers, soft fathers, nice moderate fathers- one’s as bad as another” (136). They feel that parents negatively influence their children with their aspirations, resentments, and their ideals. Personally, I agree with the chief. Parents, along with their wisdom, instill prejudice, discrimination, fear, and much more negative aspects in their children. it impossible to do no harm.