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When childhood trauma affects the next generation

My brother and I are both in our forties and we've never talked about how our dad used to hit us when we were kids. Now our kids are becoming friends and I watch him parent the same way Dad did and I don't know if I should say something or just protect my own family.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The silence that protected them as children is now endangering their children's safety and connection.

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