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Because people have high expectations from life but low willingness to accept and adapt. So they'll rent a fake to cut corners.



How does that explanation tie up with the example given in the article where a girl was being bullied for not having a father? Is that driven by willingness to cut corners?


In that case the mother wanted to give the girl a fake father experience, she should have tried to give her a real adoptive father instead. The mother wanted to have the perks of a real father without doing the hard work of entering a relation, like everyone does.


Perhaps she wanted her girl to stop being bullied, have you considered that possibility?




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