Word: misdirecting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mary Jo Bane may be a great scholar on welfare reform. But in scolding President Clinton for signing the recent welfare bill, both Bane and the staff misdirect their hostility...
Families too have suffered. Unstable relationships can be pushed across the line into outright dysfunction. In some cases the Barrington team observed, one spouse became hypersexual and the other hyposexual, with obviously destabilizing consequences. Adults frequently misdirect their anger toward spouses and children. In one pitiful case, a young mother started abusing her four-year-old daughter, swatting the clutching child with shrieks of "Get away from me!" The woman had lost two other children in a quake in her native Guatemala...