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Very well said Robbo!
Haven’t got much to add really except that, as the expression goes, hindsight is 20-20, especially when it comes to parenting. A rare parent sets out to mess up their child so looking for someone to blame is pointless. I sure know there are things I would have done differently when my children were little . If anything, try to enlist your parents as allies. However, as Robbo said already, a parent may feel blamed regardless. I guess the upside is that such a feeling is likely out of guilt which in a way is positive in that it indicates they at least care about their role in the situation.
Also, if you subscribe to the stages of grief theory then what you are feeling is very normal. In effect you are grieving for a loss and you are feeling angry now, one of the initial stages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kübler-Ross_model.
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