> so you will be better off working to improve your parents'
>attitudes instead of running away from home.
This take maybe explains why you more than frequently sound like a scolding parent. (Shades of Tom Hayden!)
> There is no alternative
Yikes. A parent named Ronald or Margaret.
I know Carrol doesn't like Freud, but to follow a train here:
"A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him." (from "Moses and Monotheism", 1939)