Only kids love their parents unconditionally. Not the other way round.

Is it truly "love" that infants / children feel for their parents, or is it just a habitual acceptance of someone else (the parent) through repeated (and preferably positive) interaction with them that the children couldn't see themselves getting this in that manner from anyone else? I'd say that most children will adore their parents for what they do for them, but even that doesn't, at times, happen without any condition.

In the weakest sense of the word "love", I'd say that children won't "love" their parents if and when they forbid / deny their child something it wants even though the reasons for denying them something may be out of concern for their safety. For a short time afterward, the child won't "love" their parent.

Then there is the fact that truly loving someone is a choice that is actively made (every day / week / month). I don't think children make that choice; they just accept it as a given, probably because they haven't received such care to such a degree from anyone else given the time and effort it takes to foster a parent-child relationship.

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