In my clinical work in Dubai, I see a pattern that troubles me: girls who cannot recognise when someone is mistreating them, because mistreatment was normalised long before that person arrived. It begins at home — and it can be changed at home.
From my years of clinical work in Dubai, I've observed something that surprises many parents when I say it out loud: in much of the Arab world, parents and their teenagers are living on completely different planets. Here's what that means — and what parents can do about it.
