What say you...my boss' ex-wife just threw their daughter out of the car and drove off...

[Shankapotomus]

125. seabeyond

The OP concerned a situation where there was heated emotions and a mother leaving a minor off somewhere without anything being resolved. An impulsive and thoughtless act by the mother. That is very different from "all the time".

Now I know you are a feminist so I will submit to you that the mother's behavior was reflecting the archaic, patriarchal "problem solving" that dominants our culture, force, verbal violence and the suggestion of "disownment" a word that presupposes the age-old patriarchal claim ownership and property of off-spring, especially daughters. The threat of abandonment is an age-old patriarchal means of control from the early days of humankind when abandonment by the group, usually lead by a male figure, meant life or death alone at the hands of the elements. In other words, the dominant male of the family or tribe couldn't be bothered with compromising, patience or discussion when it came to "underlings". It was his way or the highway.

In short, it is an outdated, violent, anti-intellectual, patriarchal behavior. Even though it involves two females, the mother is displaying this outdated behavior rooted in oppressive patriarchal behavior.