Parents or caregivers on the spectrum for Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) will generally resent having to tend to a child’s basic needs. They may speak badly about the child, never touch or hold them affectionately, or show little or no regard for the child at all. Narcissistic parents will also easily feel jealous of their children or threatened by their autonomy, especially as the children approach their teen years.
Adult children of narcissistic parents can find themselves trapped between maintaining an unhealthy relationship with an aging, yet disrespectful, stalking, slandering, harassing parent and being judged by extended family, friends and acquaintances if they choose to cut off all contact with the abusive parent. But when emotionally, psychologically or physically abused children grow up, they may have no choice but to end the relationship with the abusive parent.