This is a massive issue. I have no idea just how massive it is but I have been keeping some kind of watch on the U.S. national scene for about four decades at least (maybe longer) with a particular eye towards telling stories about abusive and domineering parenting. This is especially prevalent in #Christian right-wing circles where, thanks to an enormous body of literature and media and entire institutions devoted supposedly to "family values" and the moral guardianship of children, it's considered *normal* and sound parenting to treat children with much the same cold-blooded attitude towards obedience and productivity that you'd expect from a breeder of trained dogs or horses.
The child is supposed to be the pawn of the father, in this vast body of "Christian" and "Biblical" lore about parenting. There is no greater possible priority, according to such Christian parenting experts, than instilling in the child the imperative: **obey**. The child who does not learn to fear the authority of his father never learns to fear the laws of God...that's how the hardline Christians feel about parenting.
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen
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