Lasting Damage Abused children often become abusers as adults or let others heap abuse upon them. Alice Miller, author of For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence, shows that some of the world's most infamous dictators suffered severe mental and physical domestic trauma during childhood. In an address to the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, Professor Charles K. Bellinger said:
Leaving domestic violence unreported and unresolved sets off a cycle of brutality that sooner or later can lead to murder. If brutally abused people are left untreated, distortions in their psychology might move them to participate in genocide, terrorism and mass murder. Domestic Violence - What you can do about it
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