Unlike cohesive families, these families exhibit high levels of conflict, hostility, and coercive control across multiple family subsystems.
And these goals may even be contradictory (e.g. both coercive control and participation can be fostered by digital technology).
But no amount of coercive control can alter the free decisions of other entities; only persuasion can do so.
Another argument is that time-out, like all other methods of coercive control, eventually stops working as children grow older and begin to rebel against their parents authoritarian approach to discipline.
It is only after the persuasive act of self-motion is successful that an entity can even "begin" to exercise coercive control over other finite physical bodies.
