As a sister to 7 siblings and a mother to one boy, I can say that this is not true for me, even when I was an unhealthy 8. I have a strong connection with my 2 point, probably influenced by a strict religious evangelical upbringing (dad was Calvinist preacher and we attended a rural Mennonite school). However, I am very much the kind of mother who does feel that allowing a child to roam the local neighborhood freely and occasionally hurt himself is good for developing a bit of a tougher skin - in other words, I am not overly protective of my son, because I see his becoming dependent on me as a weakness (which I think most 8's would agree that we see dependence as a weakness) and since it is my job to prepare my son for his own independent foray into the world, I would be doing him a disfavor by being too protective (this is not to say that my own Mama Bear doesn't come out sometimes, often more when his emotional vulnerability is at risk). I have enacted a counting routine when he cries and whines to get his way - for every number I count, he loses a day of screen time - in an effort to weed out that behavior as manipulation vs. true expression of feelings or needs that have gone unmet. It is very effective. Many of my siblings are, in my estimation, overprotective of my parents (all of us having in our own ways to grow up fast as children because our parents are emotionally immature) and we have many disagreements on how to care for them in their old age. That said, I think it would be a sociopathic 8 who would do as you suggest, and is probably not the norm for most 8s, even moderately unhealthy ones.