Hannah Spier: Why CPS needs to protect her children from her
The following are my takes on a number of excerpts from Hannah's article, which you can find here . “She was not responding to danger so much as experimenting with a social move, shifting into vulnerability, redirecting attention, and casting herself as the endangered girl for whom adults must intervene. Her father, being very sensitive to fake displays of emotion, recognised it immediately and shut it down calmly but firmly.” This is a textbook case of emotional abuse. Hannah determined that the emotions of her young daughter were fake and intended to manipulate. Children are born as a clean slate and completely innocent. They aren’t born as manipulators. Hannah and her husband are the emotionally abusive ones, because they are the ones who predetermined that their daughter's emotions were fake and shut them down, instead of doing the right thing, which would've been to allow their child to express and communicate its emotions. “What moments like this reveal is how quick...