Bad Parents

Prompt: Write about a time as a kid that you thought you had bad parents/guardians. Looking back on it now do you agree with your former view of the situation?

Every time my parents left me, I thought they were being bad parents. But now I know they were just doing what the needed to do to get by--to give me the life they never had. I used to think it wasn't fair that I didn't see them all the time like other kids. But I know that wasn't how they wanted it.