January 2018 - Child Abuse Effects

Jan 30, Converging Stolen Lives

There was a time and space I didn’t think about you, or your abuse. Where when I looked back at my life, I only saw normal things, a normal childhood. Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 30 2018 10:13 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 29, A letter to one of the 13 Turpin children

A heartfelt letter by a former classmate that speaks to bullying and regrets. You'll find it on my Facebook group. I hope you'll join and get in on the discussion. Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 29 2018 8:33 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 29, Dissociated From Abuse

I was sexually abused by my father from age 6 to 13, which stopped when I started talking about it during the day. The teenage brother of my best friend Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 29 2018 8:00 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 26, Harassment Never Ended

As an adult I now realize my mother is a narcissist. As a child, I was never allowed to feel happy. Basically, nothing mattered but her. Nobody else had Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 26 2018 7:42 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 25, Tried to Suicide

When I was 6 years old I was left alone for 36 days, me and my siblings. My mom would leave and not come back for weeks. We had no food. My dad was living Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 25 2018 6:16 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 24, Institutional Cover Up

I'm am an adult survivor of child sexual abuse and suffered the usual intimidation, physical assaults, mental health threats to victimise and silence me Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 24 2018 6:19 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 23, Suicidal Alcoholic Mother

My poor mother was apparently an embarrassment to my father and his family for being suicidal. She was a child herself and not coping with two boys already. Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 23 2018 6:59 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 22, Every New Torture

I am sixty years old now, and every day of my life I think about my non-childhood. My mother apparently felt it was her job to, and I don't say the term Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 22 2018 8:39 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 19, As a Teenager

When I was fourteen, in sophomore year of high school, I started going to homeschool. My mom started yelling at me to move out of the house, get out, and Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 19 2018 7:30 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 18, Didn't Break Me

I have to find some goodness in all things. That there can’t be things that are truly built with nothing good in them, because it’s actually how I survive. Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 18 2018 5:30 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 16, Can't Take Anymore

My father was always a good father, and a good husband, until 2008. He used to go out of the country because he's a musician, and when he came home in Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 16 2018 8:41 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 12, Slowly Beginning Recovery

When I was 12 years I was sexually assaulted by a boy in my math class. The teacher made me sit next to him, ignoring my attempts to get him to change Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 12 2018 6:20 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 11, This is on YOU!

I desperately scramble up the stairs, trying to escape the drunken monster behind me. Once under the safety of my bed, I silently wait. Suddenly my covers Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 11 2018 5:51 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 10, Recounting the Memories

My story starts at age 6 when I was sent to live with my step-mom and my dad because my mom was a drug addict. I believe Social Services had something Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 10 2018 7:34 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 9, Positive About Life

When I was a kid, I looked up to my dad. I wanted to be just like him, to be strong and protect those who were important to me. The one thing I wanted Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 09 2018 6:27 AM by Child Abuse Blog