I was studying child development, & when a parent or adult hits a kid throughout their childhood, they can end up developing a dissociative disorder in adulthood. A child cannot physically escape abuse majority of the time, so they mentally go else where and detach mentally in order to protect themselves as much as they can.
So as an adult, whenever they experience pain, fear, or discomfort, especially from a loved one, instead of knowing how to work through it, or even leave the abuse, they dissociate in order to mentally escape, while being frozen in fear.
So beating your child teaches them not only is it okay for someone you love to hit you, but it also teaches them how to stay in abusive situations.
Hopes this helps for anyone who uses the line “my parents beat me and I turned out fine”.
I also learned how abused children can end up being highly imaginative and creative as adults because they’ve constantly flexed that part of their brain in order to create a new world in their mind, practiced from dissociating as a child. This isn’t really a positive either because they find it very hard to ground themselves and to be a part of society/reality. They end up being hermits, struggle with socializing and can pick up addictions much easier.
my grandpa could. he requested to be taken home from the hospital so he could pass at home. as soon as he got home he asked for one more beer and then passed away.
I am BEGGING y’all to read at least one book on domestic violence bc this isn’t being a girls girl, this is helping to isolate a victim further bc she didn’t respond how you wanted her to
the male birth control injection already being approved to be done under anesthetics while IUD’s still aren’t makes me absolutely fucking feral. to be a woman in america is to be treated like you’re not a person.
Missouri math teacher was arrested on 4 warrants for messing around with a 16 year old student. The father of the teenager was also arrested for knowing about the relationship & not reporting it to the police.
In 2006, Anthony Ray Stockelman was forcibly tattooed across his forehead with the words Katie’s revenge by another inmate after it was found out that he was serving time for raping and murdering a 10 year old child called Katie Collman.