I'm working on a story set in the future with human trafficing as a big theme. A major character in the story is a young girl, eight, was taken from her family and sold to be a domestic servant (though slave is much more apt).
Instead of just having the little girl beaten into submission and secretly planning on running away and killing her owner in his sleep, I've chosen to take different angle. Instead, due to the man's various methods of manipulation, the girl develops Stockholm syndrome. I've been doing a lot of my own research on the syndrome, but I'm finding very few sources in terms of the syndrome in children. So I'm reaching out to AW to lend some imput.
How could the villain instill Stockholm syndrome in a child? A Stockholm syndrome case revolves around the victim bonding with their captor as a means of survival and the mistaken belief their captor is showing them kindness simply because they don't kill them.
Instead of just having the little girl beaten into submission and secretly planning on running away and killing her owner in his sleep, I've chosen to take different angle. Instead, due to the man's various methods of manipulation, the girl develops Stockholm syndrome. I've been doing a lot of my own research on the syndrome, but I'm finding very few sources in terms of the syndrome in children. So I'm reaching out to AW to lend some imput.
How could the villain instill Stockholm syndrome in a child? A Stockholm syndrome case revolves around the victim bonding with their captor as a means of survival and the mistaken belief their captor is showing them kindness simply because they don't kill them.