Parents Provide guidance, set limits, discipline and are able to express feelings to their children. Authority and discipline are not seen as a right to control by force if necessary. Children of non-violent homes do not have to wonder who will protect them or think that ot live in fear is normal. Children often loose respect for their parents and may start being abusive as they get older. Children from violent homes may run away.
Teenagers enter into marriages to escape the abuse in the home.
Parents are supportive during successes and failures. Children grow up with poor self-esteem. They are often fearful and lonely. Achievement is not encouraged to promote self-esteem but to protect the family from an unacceptable image or from uncontrolled rage. Children of non-violent homes do not witness violence between parents.