Like father, like son: how the damage from emotional abuse gets passed down

"Shut the f**k up," screams the three-year-old.

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"No. You shut the f**k up," screams his six-year-old sibling in reply.

The mother turns to me and, with a brittle laugh, says, "I keep asking my husband not to say that in front of the kids."

Within my immediate social circle there are husbands who explode with rage when the house isn't spotless and their clothes are not washed and ironed.

There's a husband who tells his wife that her post-baby body is too revolting to have sex with, and there are several men who won't allow their wives to talk on the phone when they're home.

One man controls his wife's spending to such an extent she can't even buy her friend a birthday card. Another taught his son to apologise to his mother by saying that she is "young, skinny and beautiful", thereby sending the message that these are the most important characteristics in a woman.

And there's one who controls his wife by refusing to look after his own children when his wife upsets him.

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Like father, like son: how the damage from emotional abuse gets passed down

Like father, like son: how the damage from emotional abuse gets passed down

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