Interesting responses, but I am dismayed at the antique attitude displayed by the article... It almost sounds as if we're back in the late 1940's to the 1950's, when women were supposedly "catty, vindictive, petty, manipulative, sneaky, cowardly"... And so on. You pick your insulting term indicating weakness and mental or emotional fragility and use it against women in general...
Really? Where? This was written by a WOMaN describing WOMEN who do these things. Who ARE these things, and abusive to boot. It's not talking about "emotionally fragile women", it's talking about abusive ones. To deny that women also have the ability to be assholes is really sexist, and deny's their humanity.
Is it any wonder that women under stresses will act out - often violently - towards their own offspring, under such unfavorable dynamics???
False dilemna. That's like saying "Is it any wonder the JW's are abusive to thier own members after being persecuted by so many govt.s?"
I was beaten and abused as a child, I was abused in many ways by the JW's. And went thru alot of other shit. Does that make it OK for me to pass it on? No. I worked @ a group home for emotionally disturbed kids, went to parenting classes, read books, etc. and chose to have a child @ 32 rather than younger, because I wanted to fix it, learn as much as i could not pass it on. That's what you do.