Why do some teens say they hate their parents?

Answer 1

Parents tend to have unrealistic expectations. They don't always realize that children are HUMAN BEINGS and they don't always agree with them.

Parents don't hate their children. They dislike their actions and their attitudes, but they don't hate their child. And while the child may feel like they are being unfairly restricted, it is normally done to protect the child from their own inexperience.

Answer 2

Parents think that they are doing kids a favor by being strict but they are really harming them. I am 25 years old and my parents are super strict and nosy. They have produced a mentally unstable person(me). I hate them!Teenagers have a lot in their life (school, friends, etc.). It can be overwhelming. Teens just can't take their parents stressing them. I don't understand why teens hate their parents, considering I am a teen. I love my mom, but my dad, I can't take. I do what a lot of other teens tend to do, "I treat my parents the way they treat me".

Answer 3

The age of "teen hood" has only existed since the term was used in 1939, so this is a fairly recent idea. Many hate their parents because they are ego centric and when they are challenged in what they want they respond with dissatisfaction, hate, and rebellion. In recent years there has been a popular pseudo psychological view that it is normal behavior for a person from 13-18 to respond with rebellion against parents and society. This view is further promoted in the media and books. It also seems that a person who is 18(and an adult) is considered a teen and is referred to as such. So this idea of people in the teen years has been extended into the late teens and early 20's allowing them not to accept the responsibility for their behavior. All of this adds up to people who act the way they do because they can get away with it. The foundation of how a person acts in the teen years is actually started when a child is 2-3 years old. A parent who sets boundaries, has good communication, and is consistent with their child is actually setting the framework for the later years.

Answer 4

The actual problem is not lack of discipline but instead that the child wants to be independent and most parents will not let them. For the teenager to be independent both parents and child have to work together. The teenager does not hate them but they may just want to be left alone.

Answer 5

In almost every case, kids hate their parents because they feel that the parents betrayed them.

Kids may not like their parents, they may be embarrassed, offended, scared, etc-- but actually hating them is a unique experience brought on exclusively by a destruction of trust.

Big things, like abuse, are obvious examples of this. But subtle examples abound. Even the most cynical teen assumes that parents will love them more than other kids, protect them, be more interested in them than other things. A parent who is kind and warm to their child, but repeatedly reminds them how much better other kids are ("Jimmy plays soccer a lot better than you!") is in bigger danger of getting hated than one who is cold and distant, but who nonverbally communicates that he still prizes his child more than anything else.

Answer 6

they dont. and if they do, obviously their parents have done something terribly wrong

They may want to provoke a strong response from their parents that will indicate how much they care.