Abused children cling to their abusers just as fairy tale children do
Evidence
In life, as in the fairy stories, children will cling to even the most abusive parent. Hansel and Gretel make their way back to the couple who have tried to abandon them, and hope this time it will be different. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 168
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to attachment-theory literature on trauma bonding and to real child-welfare news accounts of children returning to abusive homes. — connects to: Fairy tales reflect the dark, unspoken psychological realities of ordinary parental frustration. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 168; Spanked children show the same threat-response neural pattern as abused children. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 6224; Corporal punishment harms children’s brains through the same mechanisms as physical abuse. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 6255
- FICTION: A character-note: a betrayed child who keeps coming back to the abandoning parent is a rich, psychologically accurate engine for a story.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 168
Broader Connections
- Spanked children show the same threat-response neural pattern as abused children.
#corroborates(0.85) — , The Rod and the Child, 6224 - Corporal punishment harms children’s brains through the same mechanisms as physical abuse.
#corroborates(0.78) — , The Rod and the Child, 6255