Editing Alice Miller (psychologist) (section)

===The roots of violence===

According to Alice Miller, worldwide violence has its roots in the fact that children are beaten all over the world, especially during their first years of life, when their brains become structured.<ref name=YouTube/> She said that the damage caused by this practice is devastating, but unfortunately hardly noticed by society.<ref>{{YouTube|_3gwKquelUE|Interview with Alice Miller on Austrian radio (German)}}</ref> She argued that as children are forbidden to defend themselves against the violence inflicted on them, they must suppress the natural reactions like rage and fear, and they discharge these strong emotions later as adults against their own children or whole peoples: "child abuse like beating and humiliating not only produces unhappy and confused children, not only destructive teenagers and abusive parents, but thus also a confused, irrationally functioning society". Miller stated that only through becoming aware of this dynamic can we break the chain of violence.<ref name=Alice-Miller.com/>