Pretty much my thoughts on it. The thing about This Be The Verse is that, for the most part, it isn't the parents' intention to fuck their children up. They aren't intentionally abusive or cruel or awful, and are just as trapped as their offspring. They're replicating their parents' parenting, who are replicating their parents' parenting...a whole litany of shit parenting resounding down the ages and fucking up everyone involved in it.