Toxic Parents And Their Status In The Quran
I am not sure about the beating part or being verbally abusive, that is certainly wrong, but I have noticed that sometimes children call parents as bad parents if they tell them to study or stop criminal or immoral behaviors etc. So to figure out who is right or wrong, the Quran helps us decide. Let’s suppose parents are actually bad and the child is good and child is not doing anything bad or immoral. Still a child is not allowed to be disrespectful them. This is very difficult, but without disrespecting, avoid them or get out of that situation. If a person is mature enough to know that parents are bad, the person is mature enough to earn money and live on his own. Do not depend on them, move out and avoid conflict. The first effort should be to stop being dependent on such parents. It is like having a job in a company. You do not like your supervisor but you keep tolerating his bad behavior because without the income from the job you will go homeless. While working under abusive supervisor you try to learn new skills to find a different job, but until then, you stay quiet and take the abuse.