About Abuse by Gloria Kennedy

We have over flogged  domestic abuse from husbands to wives and vice versa. How about we take our time to talk about abuse from parents to children. You think its nothing right, you think its just one of those corrective measures parents use to get the child to be in his/her best manners? You think without those beatings, bullying, punishments, insults, seizing their toys and making them unhappy for a while, the kids could have turned out really terrible right?

I think not, I think most of these domestic abuse among couples were birthed from parents to children abuse. When you hit your child to the point that he or she bleeds and then you tell the child it was done to correct him/her, they will grow up to see abuse as a corrective measure. This is why some adults still see nothing wrong with beating their wives, a particular guy even told us at a rally that it shows you love and care for the person. I am sure you guys have seen that post where the lady said men who don't hit their wives to correct them do not really love their women and she can't marry such men.

Beating your kids each time they are wrong raise them to become abusers and people who contain abuse. My mum's best bible quotation was "spare the rod and spoil the child" how it still rings in my head. When you finally raise the child with the rod, how then do you tell her not to accept abuse in other relationships. How do you tell your son who beats all his sisters when they are wrong not to hit his wife, not to lock her up, not to burn her clothes. It becomes the norm, for him if his parents who loved him so Much could beat him that badly, why can't he also do it to his most cherished wife. How do you tell your daughters not to pour out their vexations at their husbands using the most disrespectful and despicable language when that was exactly what you used on them while they were growing up?

If you fight against domestic violence and you hit your kids to the point where they bleed, you bully them, insult them to make them feel worthless, you use your sons to beat your daughters, and use your daughters to insult your sons, you are raising future abusers and "abusees". The boys and girls you raised under your roof are the men and women you later come to the social media to fight.

© Gloria Kennedy