And hopefully you will see this: that if a mother wants to keep hurting her daughter, then her own behavior has to be suspect (unless the daughter is committing crimes). But in that case a mother would be contacting police and legal services for protection, not trying to keep hurting her daughter.
INTRODUCTION
Note: This is actually a deep subject with a lot of psychological research into human behavior by professionals in the psychology field, and for this particular topic, I highly recommend reading the articles in the "further reading section" below to understand the full scope of the problem and issues. I could not begin to cover them all in this particular post other than talking about the most common tactics that narcissists and sociopaths use, and the sadism behind those tactics, and why it matters in term