Parents are definitely affecting by how their children are doing. They feel guilt, shame and it affects them personally if their kid ends up substance abusing to the point of being committed. Many feel like a failure as a result of it, others will look for someone else to blame.

I think the timings of posts shows an estrangement too. This is a man who drove everyone away from him and within that isolation he became even more extreme than what drove away the people around him.