How did/would psychopaths react to having a child?

A child for a psychopath is just another object - maybe useful, maybe not. Psychopaths don't bond with their own children, though they might attach to them in the same way that we attach to a favorite mobile phone. read more

Not to any particularly large, and definitely not from an emotional degree - however the child was, in reality, taking minerals from my body, having a minor impact on what I did (when pregnant), and major impact after born etc. read more

A normal child does something bad, they are punished. The whole, “this is bad because” speech is given, and they take that it is or maybe not. Punishment tends to work however, and you probably access their empathy or guilt. That does not function for us, and, neurotypical parents expect us to respond in a way that makes no sense to us. read more

He calls psychopaths "intra-species predators" because "psychopaths regard other people pretty much the same way that a cat regards a mouse", meaning that a cat has no regard for the mouse's feelings, aka zero affective empathy, no remorse for having harmed or killed the mouse, and may even slowly torture the mouse to death just for amusement. read more