Thanks for writing this! I'd definitely be interested in any sources you remember about pretty much any of it, but especially the stuff about varying sexual relationships and family arrangements.
(Re: up thread, I'd be pretty cautious about attributing violent behavior in the past to early trauma. People in *our* culture love to jump to conclusions about violence being caused by abnormal psychology, but that's mostly because violence is a massive, massive taboo, and everything about it seems easier to understand if it's something done by Other People. Which pretty much ignores that just about every experiment has shown that totally normal people will resort to violence under social pressure, or desperation, unless they've specifically prepared themselves not to.
There aren't actual statistics suggesting abuse victims/people with early trauma are more likely to be violent, just that a few rare disorders related to trauma sometimes involve violent gestures that are more likely to be directed at themselves than other people. In general, survivors are more likely to be victims of violence later. There IS a lot of risk in perpetuating views of crazy people or survivors as broken/violent/dangerous. And a lot of complete bullshit has been said about people with borderline personality disorder, because it's a disorder often diagnosed by professionals because they dislike specific patients and want to "punish" them, or assume they're incurable/malicious because they don't like them.)
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(Re: up thread, I'd be pretty cautious about attributing violent behavior in the past to early trauma. People in *our* culture love to jump to conclusions about violence being caused by abnormal psychology, but that's mostly because violence is a massive, massive taboo, and everything about it seems easier to understand if it's something done by Other People. Which pretty much ignores that just about every experiment has shown that totally normal people will resort to violence under social pressure, or desperation, unless they've specifically prepared themselves not to.
There aren't actual statistics suggesting abuse victims/people with early trauma are more likely to be violent, just that a few rare disorders related to trauma sometimes involve violent gestures that are more likely to be directed at themselves than other people. In general, survivors are more likely to be victims of violence later. There IS a lot of risk in perpetuating views of crazy people or survivors as broken/violent/dangerous. And a lot of complete bullshit has been said about people with borderline personality disorder, because it's a disorder often diagnosed by professionals because they dislike specific patients and want to "punish" them, or assume they're incurable/malicious because they don't like them.)