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.
Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
Talk with your daughters, Play with your sons. You need to be a better friend to them than anyone else. This society offers lots of evil friends. Before they make those kinds of friends, they need to find their best friend in you.
By helping a woman, you help a family.
The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
β¦for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into their fostering arms. Happy the son whose faith in his mother remains unchanged, and who, through all his wanderings, has kept some filial token to repay her brave and tender love.
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