Yes, you were cheated. But if you devote your life to the celebration of that theft, you are doomed. A classic illustration of devolution is our laws against incest. Incest laws were enacted to prevent the birth of biogenetic defectives. Children do not have the biological capacity to reproduce.
Laws prohibiting sex or marriage between closely related adults protect the species.
But incest prohibition as to children has no such value. Simply put, we as a nation consider children to be the property of their parents. And we provide a special immunity to sex offenders who grow their own victims. Yes, our human race remains the only one that tolerates nonprotective parents and same-species predators. The incest laws make that point, written in the blood of innocents.