“We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.” BelieveHumansKindChildrenDifferentCountryStatesGovernmentUnitedCommonLeaderUnited StatesRightsHugeNewsHappeningsConsequenceClaimsHuman RightsPopulationFavorsHorribleDenialOther CountriesGlobesAtrocities Author:Lundy Bancroft
“Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection. This motivates the child to do whatever the parents want in order to regain their favor. This divide-and-conquer technique is often unleashed against children who become a little too independent, threatening the balance of the family system.” WantFeelsChildrenLittlesEnoughOrderParentBalanceGainsIndependentAffectionTechniqueFavorsConquerCompareTargetDividesToxicThreateningSiblingParentalUnleashedDivide And Conquer Author:Susan Forward
“The parent gives the child a new car, money. They know the child wants these things and has to do what they want; otherwise, they withdraw the favors - manipulation, domination, no happiness, psychic sickness.” KnowsWantGivingChildrenParentCarYogaFavorsKarmaSicknessManipulationPsychicsDominationKarma YogaNew Car Author:Frederick Lenz
“Since freedom is not a fixed thing that can be grasped and held once for all, but a growth, any particular society, such as our own, always appears partly free and partly unfree. In so far as it favors, in every child, the development of his highest possibilities, it is free, but where it falls short of this it is not.” ChildrenFallGrowthFreedomPossibilityParticularDevelopmentHighestFavorsFixedUnfree Book:Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order Source: Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order