mmm. I think you have something here. I would like to hear your perspective further.
https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Cinderella+syndrome
Cinderella complex - fear of being independent causes unconscious desire to be taken care of by others.
Cinderella syndrome - false accusations made by adopted children of being mistreated or neglected by their stepmothers.
Cinderella stepmother syndrome - overcompensation by a stepmother in an effort to be accepted into new family.
She might be playing these in one form or another.
In defense of Lucas:
How does such a young child make up what he said?
He didn't make it up.
He was too young and naive to make it up.
He said Emily was mean and was hurting him.
From the mouths of babes.
She got mean again imo.
Understanding*The Cinderella Effect
Families come in all shapes and sizes. *No matter where you live, you probably know at least one family with only one parent raising the child, one child living with grandparents, and*one child that was adopted.
Regardless of the make-up of the family, the caregiver-child relationship is one that is, at least ideally, full of love and a desire to protect the child from harm. *As a parent or guardian, you are charged with raising the child as well as you can, with the childs best interests at heart. *Sometimes, however, in the case of a step parent and step child relationship, there is a disconnection between the love a parent should feel for a child and the actual bonding that takes place between the step parent and step child.
Multiple studies have shown that non-birth parents*care for children across many animal groups. *Of course, humans exhibit the step parent and step child dynamic, but animals also have step parents as an evolutionary tactic to ensure greater survival. *The problem occurs when the step parent does not have the same interest in protecting the child that a birth parent would have, whether due to a failure to bond or due to an underlying resentment or abusive behavior. *In extreme cases, the caregiver becomes an abusive step parent this is called the Cinderella Effect
Definition of the Cinderella Effect Abusive or Ambivalent*Step Parents
The version of the fairy tale of Cinderella most people are familiar with involves a controlling and manipulative step mother, two step sisters that receive all their mothers love and affection, and a neglected step child, Cinderella, who is forced to cook and clean and isolated from the rest of the family. *Cinderellas father dies, but instead of embracing Cinderella as one of her own, the evil step mother shuns her and treats her like a servant. *The Cinderella Effect is named after this version of the story.
The Cinderella Effect is the mistreatment of or ambivalence toward*ones step child (or children) due to a lack of the selfless love that birth parents are wired to feel from evolution. *To qualify, this definition is based purely on the scientifically tested*hypothesis that step parent ambivalence or*abuse will happen more frequently than abuse or lack of affection and caring by ones birth parent it does not mean that step parents are incapable of loving someone elses children, nor does it mean that all step parents abuse their kids. *What it does mean is that there is statistical evidence that shows that children are more likely to suffer from step parent abuse than abuse*by a biological parent. *Statistically, more children suffer mistreatment at the hands of a step parent than from a biological parent.
It has nothing to do with a child telling stories that is absurd...
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