– What is inter-generational trauma, and how could people who have never experienced a conflict be affected by it via their parents?

Question

– 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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Answer 1

In short, because traumatized parents have emotional difficulties that affect how they raise their children.

Trust and intimacy issues from their own abusive upbringing can echo down the chain for generations, giving their children issues with understanding and expressing emotion, or forming healthy relationships of their own.