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Survey
Are you being abused?
Emotional and mental abuse can be more difficult to recognise than physical abuse,
so it’s important to know the signs, notes a Seniors Today survey
Seniors Today conducted a survey on for example or someone who beats their
various aspects of senior abuse. In India, children. Those are signs of abuse that are
it is common for parents to live with their easy to recognise. But a lot of parental abuse
children. Real estate is so expensive that is mental and emotional, and it can be just
parents and married children are forced to as devastating as the physical. Sometimes
live together under the same roof. In India, there could be physical abuse as well.
there is no social security and parents are Here are some important ways to tell if
sometimes dependent on their children you’re being emotionally or mentally
for their life needs. Parents in India often abused.
pay for the child’s education, college and 1. You Keep Getting Blamed For
beyond, pay for the marriage and other Everything That Goes Wrong
important occasions, expecting that the A common form of abuse is when a child
children will look after them in their old blames the parent for everything that has
age. gone wrong in the family. Right from not
When parents do not have their own having money to enjoy the good things in
financial resources and are dependent on life. To the circumstances in which they
their children, they could be subject to live, the parent gets blamed. A family
mental and emotional abuse. When most member or another person manipulates
people think of abuse, they think of physical the parent into doing — or not doing —
abuse. A person who slaps their spouse, something in an effort to control them. The
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