“And so the family home, which we often hear described as the place where we are free to be and dare to be nicer and kinder than we can be anywhere else, turn out much of the time to be the place where at least with our children harsher, more cruel, more contemptuous and insulting, than we would anywhere else.†(P. 77)
I considered posting this single quote on the tail end of chapter 7. But I wondered whether they were addressing the same issue. I have to be honest and say that I have a couple brothers who fit this description while I was growing up. The other thing that I thought about was the abuse that sometimes goes on inside of families whether it is spousal or child abuse. Somewhere in the last six months or so, I read an article where the person mentioned that fact that school causes most to compartmentalize their lives. Many adults endure pressures and stresses in the course of work and their ‘social activities’ that the only place they have where they are not under those is their home. While I’m not defending it, their anger and resentment toward those situations, gets taken out in the one place they feel they should be allowed to. It bothers me alot when I hear that it gets taken out on people who had no hand in producing it.
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