This is exactly true and something I observe every day. I live among Republicans and hear them talk about how much they love that their parents ‘dared to discipline’ them. They ALL have lived chaotic lives with strings of broken and abusive relationships because of their upbringing but they can’t let go of it. I should note that Catholic parents are, if anything, more likely to be abusive parents than most Protestants outside of Evangelical cults., too, but somehow no one wants to discuss that aspect. (Blind obedience is presented openly as desirable in all Catholic spaces; there are Protestant churches, including the Methodists ironically, who discourage or prohibit corporal punishment.)
This is exactly true and something I observe every day. I live among Republicans and hear them talk about how much they love that their parents ‘dared to discipline’ them. They ALL have lived chaotic lives with strings of broken and abusive relationships because of their upbringing but they can’t let go of it. I should note that Catholic parents are, if anything, more likely to be abusive parents than most Protestants outside of Evangelical cults., too, but somehow no one wants to discuss that aspect. (Blind obedience is presented openly as desirable in all Catholic spaces; there are Protestant churches, including the Methodists ironically, who discourage or prohibit corporal punishment.)