12-09-2011, 08:49 PM
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"It makes matters worse when the parent places ownership over another form of sentient life and results in unnecessary grief."
Indeed it does but that's often the nature of humankind.
The parenting instinct isn't necessarily deliberately, though, one of ".....ownership over another form of sentient life" that is to say, the intended child. Without some understanding of the spiritual aspects of life it is hard to 'let go' the one whose existence (for some parents at least) they planned and who they expected to stay with them. On this I speak with personal experience.
Grief is never "unnecessary" however and neither would it be avoidable even if we knew all there was to know about life and life in the so-called hereafter.... Grief is instinctive and it's arguable that it actually is necessary.
But that's another issue altogether. 
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