Quotation by Alice Miller

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
Alice Miller (20th century), German psychanalyst and author. For Your Own Good, "Poisonous Pedagogy," (trans. 1983).
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