When Children Abuse Their Mothers
Forget child abuse: more and more Korean children abuse their own mothers, swearing at, hitting and kicking them.
Most are boys, from preschoolers to those in fifth and sixth grades in elementary school and junior high school students. Anything can set them off, from being ordered to stop playing computer games to being told to eat. The language they use is foul, including threats to kill their mother, and some spit and even beat their mothers black and blue.
Samsung Medical Center’s child psychology unit in Seoul saw 585 of 1,010 patients over the last two months for behavioral disorders and emotional disturbance. The major reason for admission was extreme defiance of their mothers and behavioral problems.
Why do these children turn on their mothers? Experts say the phenomenon is uniquely Korean.Mothers are the victims but also the cause. What is common to children who use violence against their mothers is excessive intervention by the mother in the life of their children.
“Children who beat their mother in most cases come from families where the relationship between mother and father is closed,” psychiatrist Park Jin-saeng said. “When the father is the sole breadwinner and the mother is completely in charge of taking care of and educating the child, the mother often tends to control her child’s everyday affairs, starting from study to friends and even the color of socks he or she wears.”
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