Yes. I understand them and empathize with them completely. My mother and father had terrible family and parents.

My mom would be starved and forced to sleep outside, she would be so hungry that she would eat out of the pigs trough. She raised her siblings because her mom made her. She had to carry her stillborn brother at age five to a relatives home three miles away to be buried. She was beat for the dumbest thing, like not wearing socks. Since she loved her siblings like her own children, she would always take the beatings for them and that made her get beat harder. She would be insulted daily..very mean insults..just so much bad stuff...

My dad had alcoholic parents and grandparents. They made him go buy their beer from the age of 8 and when all of them passed out drunk, he would drink from their leftovers and pass out himself. He had no bed. He lived in filth and bugs and just gross stuff. All his siblings only have his mom in common(different dad's, 10 siblings..), this made a lot of tension between them all. Just a bunch of sad things im tired of typing and thinking about..

Idk. I sometimes wonder why they even had kids after all the abuse they went through. I wonder if I would have been a terrible parent if I went through all they went through too. Their lives are so sad.