On Violence When Raising a Child

Ela Vasilescu
6 min readDec 23, 2020
Image by Hans Kretzmann from Pixabay

The impact of how we are raised has long-lasting effects on the grown-ups we become.

As a person born in an eastern European country in the 80s, I have witnessed as well as experienced on my own limbs, the impact of an embedded mentality that proclaimed physical punishment as the ultimate parenting tool to raise respectful, reliable individuals.

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