Enforced obedience converts children’s suffering into psychosomatic illness instead of rebellion
Evidence
Often it is the particularly quiet, well-behaved children whose needs are overlooked. Often, religious communities particularly enforce obedience and respect for the community’s authorities. Under these conditions, suffering manifests itself less as rebellion and more as mental or psychosomatic illness or eating disorder. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 522
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Judgmental fathers and family discord drive girls toward severe psychosomatic illness — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 763; Religious right childrearing doctrine frames infants as rebels needing force — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 642; Child Evangelism Fellowship deliberately exploits child psychological vulnerability to recruit converts — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 988 (+1 more)