Domestic violence

I would like to ask a basic question that has domestic violence as its subject.Who teaches that domestic violence is wrong? Who teaches a father or a mother that they should not belt their kids? Who teaches a father or a mother to allay their fears, their panic, their anguish and do not reap them on their children?

Who handles the ill effects of a childhood beaten by parents?

Certainly religion is not an adequate teaching mechanism

States, governments, do not either.

We are left with a huge gap between those people in our societies who need psychological help and those that are psychiatric cases.

The problem is that we do not have enough good shrinks at hand to treat everyone. The trouble is that SOCIETY prefers not to bother with this problem that is so common.

We have not discussed the body violation of moms and dads upon their children either at this stage.

It is fortunate that people start to talk about these serious problems, instead of keeping it under the blankets and saying “that it only happens to others”

Of the thousands of people who I have known so far, I can tell you that about half of that number have a case of beatings, of domestic violence of sexual abuse, men or women combined.

I talk to people from all walks of life. What do I see?

I see so many women who send their children or their husbands to see psychologists. The problem is that going to see a shrink is still closely linked with women’s emotions: “it’s a woman’s thing”.

Most MEN have not taken control of their lives by admitting that they also need serious life reference points other than the ones that their fathers gave them that are often faulty.

Why is that?

Mothers and women are principally the educators. The fathers are often no longer existent in a household and their notions of socializing their own children is often lacking.

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