Taras_Bulba:
It’s a well known trope that the preacher’s kids are rebellious jerks with daddy issues.
That is not always true. I knew a girl in college who was the daughter of an Orthodox priest. And she was a very decent and wonderful person. Quite beautiful too. I don’t like people mouthing off on things they don’t know anything about.
So harsh! A trope is a trope, and doesn’t claim to be an always literal truism! We had a young lady such as you describe on our campus, but I don’t recall her name. Don’t you think it’s possible that the general conclusions might be subjective, therefore, true within the experiences of the writer, as @Taras_Bulba expressed?
For example, when I attended a Big Ten college in the 50s, PKs (Preachers’ Kids), both guys and gals, were notorious for being among the wildest on campus. Back then, they flouted most of the written and unwritten rules, and their clothing, speech, hair styles, makeup, and behavior were often a bit radical, or dramatic, compared to your average Joe or Jane College, sometimes to the point of being embarrassing to onlookers.
Residence buildings for female students were locked at 11:00 PM on Sundays, 10:30 PM on Mondays through Thursdays, and at 1:00 AM on Fridays and Sundays. There were at least 6 daughters of preachers in my freshman dormitory who frequently stayed out all night (risking expulsion), came in drunk (risking expulsion), and sneaked booze into the dormitory (risking expulsion); two of them had to quit school because of pregnancy without marriage.
There were, of course, good kids from preachers’ families, as well, but the hell-raisers are the ones whose names I recall 60 years later. Generally, the tighter the reigns had been back home, the wilder the kids. Sooooooo, in my college years, the rest of us were well aware of of the trope to which Taras referred.
In my opinion, neither Taras, nor I, are mouthing off, but are referring to a trend that often occurs when kids from strict families are allowed to be on their own, with very little adult supervision.
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