Depending on our experiences, we will envision either safety or its lack. We tend to think of safety more in the physical sense, rather than the equally important emotional sense. Quite possibly, emotional safety exists less frequently than physical, but we become inured to the effects of its absence through the process of desensitization.
Safety is a concept that brings up images of being protected, free from harm.
Depending on our experiences, we will envision either safety or its lack. We tend to think of safety more in the physical sense, rather than the equally important emotional sense. Quite possibly, emotional safety exists less frequently than physical, but we become inured to the effects of its absence through the process of desensitization. Simply put, desensitization is a matter of becoming so accustomed to something that we no longer notice it or its effects. Provision for physical and emotional safety are the mandates of parenthood.