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Comment by rfrank | Hacker News Reader

I personally can't stand this sort of thing because it conflates something personal/intimate with a press release, and that's just kinda gross to me.

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You're saying that her daughter won't get the warm fuzzies in 20 years time over a PR release veiled as a "future note to our daughter"? Me neither.

Either way, if Zuckerburg doesn't live up to his promise, his daughter is going to be as schizophrenic as the world her father helped create.

Parenting style doesn't cause schizophrenia.

If your parental style happens to include sexual abuse, yes it does. Whether a parental style consisting of a hyperreal social platform and being the child of the man who created it causes a serious rift in your sense of reality remains to be decided.

It causes latent anxiety issues which can cause drug use which can then then increase chance of mental and physical diseases.

Have you heard of the "double-bind hypothesis"?

Oh for sure, there's a level of intimacy involved that, in a way, acts as a buffer against criticism.

To criticise the lovely sentiment would be like pointing out a child making a half-dozen spelling errors in their letter to Santa Claus.

Except in child case you don't doubt their sincerity. In this case I have doubts was this written by parents or by PR department.

Contrast this with Ta-Nahesi Coates' public, yet deeply personal, Letter to My Son.

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