butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway:

selchieproductions:

i mean, maybe this is my inner “survivor of child abuse” talking, but I am not going to tell abusive parents that they’re bad at bringing up their children without a bullet proof plan with regards to how I could protect my student from the emotional and physical backlash of that meeting.

Important thing to remember about intervening in abuse in general. Any actions taken by others to hold the abuser accountable WILL be taken out on the victim and not the person doing the confronting. Do not confront an abuser about their actions unless you know for absolute certain that you can protect their victim from the fallout.

AN ABBREVIATED GUIDE TO ‘holy shit my friend is in an abusive relationship what do I do’

Dysfunctional Beliefs That Are Common in Estranged Parents’ Forums | Issendai.com

argumate:

disexplications:

argumate:

this is probably the scariest page

I remember reading that series a while back.

It’s odd how there’s a network of forums that are effectively forums for abusive parents, even though they wouldn’t accept that label, although it probably comes down to bad driving out good more effectively than the reverse. She mentions in one of the posts that people who are estranged from their children through no fault of their own occasionally show up, but they don’t stick around.

twelve months on the parallels with incel culture are obvious.

entropicdecay:

EVERY single fucking Daily Mail anti-trans headline that pretends that it’s So Concerned For The Children is essentially just a bunch of dogwhistles and code words for “transgender minors should be forcefully detransitioned so that they can be more easily broken to the will of their abusive parents”. The idea of trans teenagers that pursue transition out of their own free will is anathema to the conservative worldview both in that they truly desire to will transgender people out of existence, but also in that the idea of teenagers exerting any free will and defiance of parental authority is horrifying to editors and readers who believe that children are meant to be their parents’ property.