parents - a boon or bane

Last evening i was talking to one of my neighbours who is on the administrative side of a very well know IB School here.

While sharaing on what was the latest happenings/activities going on in our life currently...i happened to mention my spiritual, social activities and some counselling work that i do.

She mentioned that the students coming to the IB school are mostly from the elite and affluent class but the sad part is that most of the students are not happy on the personal front. They either come from broken homes, or parents always at logger heads with each other, both the parents working and no time for kids, they have not seen their parents for days together, domestic abuse, child abuse...and the end result many of them have taken to drugs, they back answer and what not. Now they are planning to get on board psycho counsellers to talk to these kids.

For these kids are their parents a boon or a bane....if their parents were not ready to take the responsibilities of the kids then why were they brought in this world?? Just to show the world that they are not impotent and are capable to bear kids or have they come into this world by mistake or that "bacche to hone chahiye"....we had no answer to this.