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    %CONSTITUTION RIGHT SPEECH SILENCE WRITE ADDICT 930917

     The  child  of  parents who are manipulative  in  the
manner of addicts often resort to a strategy of silence to
survive;  there being no other effective defense.  Parents
in  such instances may try to force/trick the  child  into
saying what the child does not want to say;  doing  do  by
demands or by presentation  of  their own statements which
they feel will  force  the  child  to contradict their own
statements to  maintain  personal integrity.  Such parents
do  not respect the constitutional rights of young  people
to remain silent when they want  to remain  silent.    The
child's strategy of silence  is  the tragic consequence of
the  parents  dysfunctionality,   but it may be  the  best
alternative which is open to the child.

     When  the child who adopted the strategy  of  silence
while lacking in power to defend self and  others  in  any
other  way,  may carry that strategy over into  adult life
when  other  alternatives  of defense  exist.    If  those
alternatives  are  not  clear to the adult  child  of  the
abused  impotent child---the strategy of silence may  lead
to its own kinds  of  tragedies in  adult  behavior.   The
strategy of silence among competent adults is  alienative.
It  is  bound to lead to tragic consequences, just  as the
addictive patterns of behaviors of parents leads to tragic
consequences for the impotent child.

     Part  of  the normal education of children should  be
learning  how  to  transcend  the felt  need  to  continue
strategies  of  silence  beyond the  years  of  children's
impotency.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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