Research and document proved that there are links between cruelty towards animals in childhood and crime, violence and antisocial behavior in later years. The links between cruelty towards animals and cruelty towards humans often have domino effects.

When adults don’t respect, neglect, abuse or hurt animals, it started desensitize process or loss of compassion in our children. They can get used to watch negligence, hurting, or even killing animals without feeling any reactions. Normalizing negligence and cruelty means that harassment has become a part of a child’s life and accepted as something normal. The lack of empathy caused dehumanization because it delayed a child’s emotional development and they won’t be able to actualize their full potential as an emotional matured adult.

We can break this cycle and replace it with empathy, respect, responsibility and compassion, which are needed to build a kinder and better society. Welfare education promotes knowledge, understanding, skills, manner and values related to animals but also encourage general sense. Empathy is believed to be an important element which often lost in society nowadays and a reason which inhumane, neglect and violent behavior based on.