I will slightly guide this conversation into a different direction... I am waiting for your opinions!
I have just finished Batman (2016) #54... The one with Dick?
Bruce was such a wonderful father to him... And I got really angry and sad that this didn't happen with Damian. (I get a bit disappointed that those pages have such an effect on my emotions lol)...
Dick didn't accept Bruce. He pushed him away. (He even got out of the manor at 16 and got the big bat to tell him that he will respect him), but Bruce fought to earn his acceptance and was very expressive with him when he was younger.
Damian from the other side breathes Bruce's air. He had fought so much for him to be accepted, but he always faced a cold, hard, neglectful and distant man.
I put the classic dilemma for this family: He seems to love Dick first and most of all and then all the others. Sometimes I just think he doesn't care about Damian at all.
And it bothers me so much, I find it completely unfair...
I know there's been a bad shift at their relationship since Rebirth... But looking at it generally, I conclude that Bruce's father side was extremely rarely expressed to Damian.
And I wonder: How is it possible to do it with his own kid? Sure he was a result of rape and this fact can affect the emotions of a parent and their relationship with the child(And I certainly do not judge that)... But:
In the case of batman only how can he be so distant, when he already hurts for the children in pain? Why he ignores his child that has been in the most of it there is for a person at his age? I don't think the fact that he was a result of such an act is the main reason of Bruce's negligence to him.
They both were victims of Talia (in my opinion I much like the first version, where they just fall in love), thus Ra's. And I believe Damian was in the worst position of them all.
To say something here: I would not like to go to the "rape" situation, because every case is different and it is so tragic for a child to be born under these conditions for both parties (the victim and the child).
And generally I don't want us to express beliefs on it, because it is a sensitive matter to touch... Please, excuse me for taking such a liberty by asking that. I know it's a bit limiting.
I am waiting for your thoughts!
Thank you