how much sharper than a serpent's tooth is an ungrateful child - shakespeare

happily, my child is way too young to be ungrateful.......... most children in the west, if they are ungrateful, probably their parents wouldn't care anyway as they would be busy getting on with their own lives, new girlfriends, whatever

in ancient china, confucius came along to teach people about the importance of maintaining the correct relationships with the state, the society, to the ruler and to one's children and wife and to one's parents, husband, etc

nowadays, that kind of Confucianism would look like an absolute joke to westerners who do not seem to be able anymore to affirm the nuclear family......... Confucius, or Kong Zi -- originally from shandong province in china, we imagine could not have foreseen china's conditions today with their enforced one child policy and forced abortions including late-term abortions to maintain the law of the one child policy (only occasionally eschew-able due to location/money for a 2nd child)

if as a father and husband, you feel that you are doing everything the best you can, and are still not appreciated..... this can lead you to want to leave your mate..... looking around at western society, it seems divorce is common and with Hollywood types, it's even fashionable to treat life-long marriage as a joke

as a member of society, if you are unappreciated.... you end up wanting to leave the Nation you are living in...... the writer has left the Nation he lived in at least five times, as no Nation seems to care for expatriates of my genetic/cultural/legal peculiarities very much.......

unappreciative wife and unappreciative Nation makes relocating to a different Nation seem feasible