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.
It's taken me 40-something years, but I embrace the curl. My littlest daughter has the same hair. She likes it when my hair is curly, so I wear it for her.
We're all trying to figure out what's next, what's best for our families, what's best for ourselves, and there's a certain sort of comfort in knowing that you're not in it by yourself.
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
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