Writing from personal experience, Dr. Wilson (2001) believes that, “what we learn in our families shape every area of our lives.” When children grow up in hurtful homes, they do not learn the basics of healthy relationships (Wilson, 2001, p. 124). Parents, who abuse and neglect their children in the many ways that Dr. Wilson describes, become bad examples for our children’s future relationships. It has been documented that 30% of parents who were abused as children will grow up abusing and neglecting their own children (Narang, D. S., & Contreras, J. M., 2000). This observational learning perpetuates the hurting people who hurt other people. There is much truth in that statement, as sin-broken human beings, we can all relate to a personal perspective having been on both ends of receiving and giving hurt to others. In her book Hurt People Hurt People, Dr. Wilson discusses and describes these hurts as “actions, words, and attitudes that are intentional and unintentional, visible and invisible, hands-on and hands-off, other perpetrated and others self inflicted” (p. 9). These wounds or injuries are typically described as physical, sexual, emotional, mental, verbal or spiritual neglect or abuse.
Book Review: Hurt People Hurt People
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