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yes, but the intergenerational pathology reaches back way further than the parents of boomers. i dont know about the rest of the world, but the west has been beating and traumatizing kids practically since forever.
so you cant blame this on just the ww2 ptsd.
Oh for sure. Much of this, like most problems in the world, can be traced back to the English, who have a noted history of treating their children like shit, at least if we reach back deep enough intergenerationally.
british upper class boy schools definitely ran on systematic abuse of the young by the older students and the teachers, and i'm sure this prepared them for decisions like firing cannons at civilians and overseeing famines
but this is rest of europe erasure for sure. do you think eg german parents and child rearing methods/institutions were better?
i think it's a fairly recent (re?)discovery that beating kids is bad.