India, Feb. 12 -- Trigger warning: This deals with toxic parenting - parental abuse and its short term and long term effects on a child, and may be triggering to survivors.

Understanding toxic parenting, and checking your own parenting for toxicity to make changes is the only way to break the cycle of generational trauma, something that our future generations need us to do.

What is toxic parenting?

Parenting that usually focuses on and demonstrates narcissism, lack of respect and boundaries, humiliation, manipulation, criticism, comparison, restriction, neglect, withdrawal, apathy, emotional unavailability, physical and mental abuse, control, self absorption, rigidity, blame, emotional instability, lack of empathy, lack of autonomy and...