Children who come up through your relationship are your responsibility. If your intimacy is about struggle and control, children end up believing what is in their memory as reality. This can amount to a mis-education that continues a cycle of suffering generation after generation. If we look at what is going on in many intimate relationships, it is the innocent children who are being saddled with a reality that is actually quite primitive.
If as a parent, you are imposing your ignorance and/or your unwillingness to replace negative behavior patterns that are repetitive of your parents’ and those that came before them, there will be a consequence.
How you live your life can have the effect of creating a warped reality for children, when dangerous behaviors are transmitted. Children are programmed to receive information from authority. The child’s brain automatically believes what he sees and it gets passed on from generation to generation.
If a state of emotional infancy continues to be an inheritance, then there is a need for a new perspective. With the information that is available on how to express a deeper level of love, to do anything less than re-patterning your thinking, some might consider that a form of child abuse.
Something to ponder.