– What is inter-generational trauma, and how could people who have never experienced a conflict be affected by it via their parents?
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Here’s an example: A woman is abused by a man. She has a daughter and raises her daughter to avoid men, that men are bad, etc. That daughter might not be able to have a good relationship with men because of it.
Another example: A person was beaten as a child for misbehaving. That person never learns how to manage their own feelings or communicate properly because nobody in their life did it while they were growing up. That person has a child and doesn’t know how to teach the child to behave, so they beat their child. The cycle continues.
The concept of intergenerational trauma is that an individual experiences trauma and behaves in a certain way because of it. That behavior then affects their children, which also causes it’s own type of trauma.
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