[lbo-talk] Irish priests beat, raped children

[heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk]

The categories of emotional abuse within the the NSPCC's report range from
'psychological controls', which include factors like 'mother
unpredictable', through to 'proxy attacks', which include 'parent got rid
of your pet'. Other categories include 'psycho/physical control and
domination'; 'humiliation', for example 'shouted or screamed at regularly
over the years'; 'withdrawal', for example 'given too little attention as
a child'; 'antipathy', for example 'father disliked you'; and finally
'terrorising', for example 'sometimes really afraid of father/mother'.

None of those are things that parents would be proud of, but most I know
have done something like it from time to time. I guess that makes us all
abusers.