Indeed. The nicest people I know write the darkest fiction!
It seems like we all grow up thinking we don't want to be like our parents....and then we become parents. As Mark Twain said, “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”