As a follow-up to my question on filial piety, do you think that when adult children forgive parents for harsh parenting when the adult child was young, the forgiving on the part of the adult child is false forgiveness? In other words, the adult child forces herself to forgive, and so it is not really sincere. What do you think?
If the adult child is pressured by others to forgive the parents, then this could result in a superficial forgiveness, or what you call false forgiveness. Yet, given that many who practice filial piety would not think of forgiving the parents as a usual approach, then the forgiving likely may be thoughtful and based on a free-will choice. If this is the case, then the forgiving probably is genuine.
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