Anders Behring Breivik's father: 'I will never return to Norway'

[pampango]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/8660397/Anders-Behring-Breiviks-father-I-will-never-return-to-Norway.html

In an interview with TV2, Jens Breivik, father of the man charged with Friday's deadly attacks, said he was still in a state of shock and said he could never go back to Norway.

The reporter who conducted the interview said that the father was very ashamed.

"He's very sad, he's still in a kind of a shock and he will never return to Norway because of this. And he is ashamed, he's ashamed on behalf of his son. He has not had very much contact with his son, they separated when the boy was fifteen years old and the boy said he wanted to go to the United States and he didn't want to have contact with his father and even before that they didn't have much contact," said Elin Sorstahl, a reporter for Norwegian TV channel TV2.

Mr Breivik, a retired diplomat who lives in France, said he had had no contact with his son since 1995.

[reformist2]

1. Tragic. I wonder how much crime would decrease if children felt they were loved.

[thereismore]

2. Bingo. nt

[Maru Kitteh]

3. He had a close relationship with his mother, his stepfather and even his step-dad's second wife.

I think it's total CRAP to lay this at the feet of his biological father.

[Flubadubya]

4. Given the shear depravity of the atrocity the son committed...

I would have to ask myself whether he may not have actually received proper love from his family and father.

I wouldn't be so quick to blame the father for the son's crimes, especially not knowing the family dynamics as he was growing up.

Certainly, antisocial behavior can certainly result from neglected or abused children, but this event is just so beyond the pale, the man just has to have a severe mental illness. Thus, it may not have depended one whit on the behavior of the father while the son was growing up.

Maybe we'll learn more about the truth of it as time passes. :shrug:

[okieinpain]

5. he's religious. n/t.

[patrice]

6. Unconditionally, but also, Appropriately - sounds a little like a contradiction if one is not

creative about accessing and developing a child's free potentials, without hitting them.

[Bluerthanblue]

8. while I agree that much of the wrong that people do is because

they've not been raised in the best possible way, I think it's wrong to imply this man didn't love his son.

Part of the accused shooters writings talk about how he stopped respecting his father when his father didn't just blow off the hate graffiti that he'd been caught doing- beginning at age 13.
Being held accountable isn't usually pleasant, for the parent or the child. But it IS a loving thing to do.

It's all too easy to judge from our positions of comfort.

But not very fair.

at least imo.

[moondust]

7. Underwear bomber is also the son of a diplomat.

"The so-called underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is the son of a wealthy Nigerian diplomat."

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/07/53-hours-in-the-life-of-a-near-disaster.html

Are these spoiled rotten rich kids with too much time on their hands or what? :wtf:

[Catherine Vincent]

9. His father appears to be loaded

Check the background:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r23q5qDJT8M