Unfortunately, a lot of how children are raised and educated revolves around learning "expectations" rather than learning about self. One is expected to behave, expected to get good grades, expected is the constant so when it comes to feeling challenged, it's no wonder it's hard to find anyone who is willing or has the ability to "sit" with you as you feel and help you learn how to slowly work through your feelings.

Unfortunately, people have children because that is what comes next and many of these people have no business having a child because they have NO understanding of child development and "nurturing". We also now live in a society where so many parents just hand over their children for others to raise too. We have parents that are very self involved, they are busy being all about themselves and their careers and often they spend little time with their children, and as I mentioned children end up growing up in day care, then elementary school, and their lives slowly revolve around "expectations" and "acting' more than understanding how to be in touch with their own emotions. More and more parents look at their child's needs as an inconvenience rather than a genuine need as something they need to control rather than actually "nurture".

It's not surprising that there are so many that feel lonely, especially when they are struggling and that when they reach out the answer is "don't feel, just be happy".