How Do You Think Cruel Treatment Affects their Child As They Become An Adult?
What are the ripple affects relationship wise? Financially? Community wise?....What are your thoughts, feelings and experiences?
You would almost have to define cruel treatment. When I was little I thought my mom was cruel because I had to eat my dinner before I could have dessert. Worse, she made me eat with a fork instead of my fingers. Was she being cruel? No, she was teaching me what I needed to know to exist in society. When I was little parents were still spanking their children for transgressions. Did I think that was cruel? Of course. But first, a spanking consisted of being turned over her knees and swatted on the bottom once or twice and whatever the transgression, it was never repeated.
Maybe a better way to put it is that there were consequences for actions that were not acceptable. As an adult I appreciate that lesson and always take consequences into consideration when making decisions. I think one of the things wrong today is that people don't believe their actions deserve consequences because they've never learned that bad behavior invokes consequences.
That is a important interpretation you made cissy. Yes it would have been better to have reframed my question as put by you...your lead into the last paragraph of your response.
Your experience doesn't seem to reflect the image of emotional abuse shown with the question.
No, abuse never existed. The actual question doesn't specify 'abuse' and it's been my experience to be very very careful when using the term or making an allegation concerning abuse. I was disciplined, not abused. Too many are abused just to abuse.
Going by your picture: those who experienced emotional abuse were affected in the parts of their brain responsible for self-awareness.
"changes in the somatosensory cortex, the area that process input from the body to create sensations and perception," - Jens Pruessner,
"High Arousal (Fear) = Impaired Prefrontal Cortex Stress chemicals disable the mid cortex and limbic brain takes over So what activates the Prefrontal and Medial Cortex? - Meditation and mindfulness practices - these kick-in “top-down” brain functioning versus “bottom-up” " - Leo Butler
I can only answer this from my own perspective. To me, cruel treatment is any kind of treatment inflicted selfishly and with the intention of minimizing and hurting the other person.
In Cecelia's case, expecting her children to eat their supper is not cruel. Refusing to let the children eat cookies without finishing their peas would also not be cruel. The purpose here is not to "show those children who's boss." The purpose is to be sure that the children are getting the nutrition they need.
Locking the children in a cage or giving them hour-long beatings because they didn't finish their peas would be cruel. It strips the children of their dignity, and is intended only to "put those children in their place."
I have trouble trusting others or believing that I'm good enough. My relationship with my parents deteriorated after we started going to church. (Among things we were taught: Good children never question authority. Hurt feelings just show that you're not right with God. If your parents are belittling you or otherwise saying hurtful things, it's because you need to learn humility. Only the most rebellious children speak up for themselves instead of just "meekly submitting to God-given authority. "The only response I ever want to hear from you is, 'Yes, Sir.'")
That upbringing severely affected my relationship with both my parents and the "men of God" who preached those philosophies. When I came home from Christian school crying because I was having trouble in science class (and the teacher obviously hated me), my stepfather's only response was a mocking, "Awwww...did somebody hurt your little FEELINGS? That's right! Go to your room and cry about it! Can I come to your pity party?" That was followed by his calling to my brother, "Hey, [X], we're having a party in here! You want to come to Natasha's pity party?" And then he'd give me the biggest phony smile he could. His behavior was cruel, because he sought only to hurt and provoke me. To this day, I despise him. I learned that I couldn't talk to him about things that bothered me. Even now, it's hard to trust anyone because of similar experiences with him and "men of God." I've also left Christianity.
I ended up being diagnosed with major depressive disorder, to me a natural result of constantly being belittled for having normal human doubts and feelings. Since I could only internalize my feelings, I ended up hating myself for having "sinful" feelings.
by dje71 6 years ago
There are a lot of discussions in forums by dads desperately wanting to be "dad" to their estranged children. My take on it is different; I used to be one of those dads.The mother of my daughter and I separated a year after my daughter was born. The mother did everything she could to...
by Josak 11 years ago
A few years back I met a man who had been a child soldier in the Sierra Leone conflict, in one of the most harrowing conversations I have ever had over a whole evening he told me about the things he had seen and done, some of which are literally too heinous to write here, from murder to cannibalism...
by Ken McGonigal 5 months ago
What do you do if your teenager refuses to come home?My son is 16 years old. He does not like our rules. Now he is refusing to come home.
by Brian L. Powell 11 years ago
At what age are children no longer considered children?I ask because, here in Texas, you can sign contracts at 18 but you can't drink or smoke until 21. I don/t think it is the same around the world. I know parents tend not to see their own children as grown up, so I am talking about everyone else,...
by Hypersapien 10 years ago
How should parents deal with lazy, unemployed, still-live-with-Mom-and-Dad adult children?It's one thing if your child loses his job and has to move back home, but how do you deal with one that won't even look for work, thinks you should still provide for all their needs (clean their room, wash...
by Peeples 6 years ago
Why do parents expect children to act like adults?Do we put too many standards on our children and in return take away some of the child in them?
Copyright © 2024 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2024 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |