I don’t recall ever seeing my mother as a human being. She would always be weeping and wailing in the corner of the kitchen like a dog tied up to be tormented. My father would assail her with a hail of insults, and when her endurance broke, she would whine aloud, ‘Why good Lord? Why? Take me and save me.’ Only then would my father stand up, take the cord out of his headdress, and whip her nonstop for half an hour, spitting at her throughout. Hassan Blasim
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I do not recall ever seeing my mother as a human being. She would always be weeping and wailing in the corner of the kitchen like a dog tied up to be tormented. My father would assail her with a hail of insults, and when her endurance broke, she would whine aloud, ‘Why good Lord? Why? Take me and save me.’ Only then would my father stand up, take the cord out of his headdress, and whip her nonstop for half an hour, spitting at her throughout. The worst thing about this quote is that it’s so true.

If you’ve ever had a parent who was verbally abusive towards you or another family member, you know how it feels to be punished by your own parents for something they did wrong. The idea is that by punishing your child for their misdeeds, you will make them stop doing them in the future. In most cases though, this does not work as expected.

In modern psychology it is commonly known as the ‘corporal punishment’ effect or ‘pain-inhibition.'

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