"You were orphaned and so wild, so full of adventure that you were shuffled from one uncaring foster parent to the next, weren't you, Jethro."

Yet all too often it appears to behave as an angry, irrational, or uncaring parent than a loving one.

Robbie (Jon Whiteley), an orphaned 6 year-old boy, has been placed with uncaring and harsh adoptive parents in London.

A habitual womanizer, heavy drinker and uncaring parent, Douglas was married four times, cheating on each of his first three wives with her eventual successor.

He appears to be an unloving, uncaring parent, but this is primarily because he simply does not want to be a "bother" for either of his sons.

More Family Problems A magazine article last spring painted him as an uncaring parent.

"She murdered her son by being an irresponsible, uncaring parent," he said.

"Parents who feel they can't accomplish it, it puts them in the position of immediately being inadequate or being seen as uncaring parents."

She made us sound like uncaring, unsupervising parents, and I wish someone from the magazine had called us to check that out.

In childhood, such women have typically experienced an extreme emotional abandonment by an uncaring parent, Dr. Kaplan said.