In Her Father's Tribe--A Story About Emotional Child Abuse Now Called Coercive Control
Social Scientists noticed that people feel good when they hear their religious and political views praised and distressed or even angry when they hear facts that disprove their beliefs. We humans are like this because when our ancestors walked the earth as hunter/gatherers, they needed the protection of a tribe for survival on a wild planet populated with mountain lions and wolves and African lions and hyenas or elephants and tigers. Unfortunately, in the modern world, tribal thinking causes racial discrimination, wars, ethnic tensions, and conflict in divorced families. My children’s father and I co-parented well when we first divorced. Then he married a very controlling woman who divided our family into tribes. In my tribe, we called my daughter’s father every night because when my parents divorced, I lived with my mother, but my relationship with my father was important to me. In my tribe, I wrote letters to the teachers to make sure they gave all school information to my dau...