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When you become the parent you feared as a child

I spanked my four-year-old in anger yesterday and the look in her eyes reminded me of myself as a child and I cannot stop crying.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A moment of inherited violence forces the parent to confront the continuation of their own childhood trauma.

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