"In the short term, corporal punishment may produce……" — Alice Miller
"In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development."
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65 Quotes by Alice Miller
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Empathy grows as we learn.
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The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.
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Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the…
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People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had…
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