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If you hit a dog, it's animal abuse. If you hit your spouse, it's spousal abuse. If you hit an old person, it's elder abuse. If you hit your child, it's just called parenting. That needs to end Children are not property and have the right not to be beaten.

I was hit, often. Never in my years of parenting did I ever hit, demean or abuse in any way my now way adult children. You can break the circle.

Totally agree!

Generational abuse has to END somewhere.😞 Maybe not with this generation. Maybe not with the next. But someday, someone must say: “It ends with me.” Trauma may be inherited. Abuse doesn’t have to be. Let the cycle end with us— so our children can inherit healing instead of hurt.

Because of the trauma of being abused they become abusers themselves.

Or, you use the abuser as a perfect role model for how you'll NEVER treat others. I wasn't given a parenting handbook, just a clear example by my father on what not to be. Didn't stop me from using drugs for escape, but that creates a different kind of abuse so left that behind decades ago. ✌️