If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
Interpretation
Family violence instills harmful lessons in children about power and conflict resolution.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin's quote emphasizes the detrimental effects of family violence on children's perceptions of power dynamics and conflict resolution. If children learn that using might is a valid way to assert dominance at home, it raises concerns about their future behavior and attitudes towards conflicts in the broader world, suggesting a cycle of violence that extends beyond the family unit into society at large.
In practice
During a community meeting on domestic violence prevention.
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.
You will never have this day with your children again. Tomorrow they will be a little bigger then they are today. This day is a gift. Breathe and notice. Smell and touch them; study their faces and little feet and pay attention. Relish the charms of the present. Enjoy today mama. It will be over before you know it.
We didn't have anyone to tell us that what was going on with me was alright. There was no information about transgender people when we started our journey, but we managed to make it through because of the tremendous amount of love that our family had.
People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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