Analysis Of Childhood Powerlessness In The Western Culture
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In chapter four, Anne Bishop talks a lot about child abuse and a child’s experience to powerlessness. Children are often powerless to adults and their parents that it becomes so common that it passes for normal. In the Western Culture, there is little value on children’s opinions and are quickly made to be quiet. Our culture has brought on the oppression of children. I think that this how Bishop explains “The personal is political” and how you can understand oppression. This chapter also discusses five theories that support why the pain of childhood powerlessness becomes adult abuse of power or acceptance of abuse, adult oppression and acceptance of oppression. The first theory is that unhealed pain is engraved in our mind. Sometimes survivors