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 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 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 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 5, Nobody Helps

My entire life, one of the two people who were supposed to be the ones who I trusted the most, deceived me. My father. There is not one positive moment Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 05 2018 6:50 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 3, I am the Child

My name is Krishna. My name is Radha. I am also called Ali or Fatima, Ah Sen and or Ah Moy, Pierre or Marie, Peter or Mary, Ivor or Olga. I was born Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 03 2018 6:51 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 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 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 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

Jan 4, The Pain Continues

At only 7 years of age, I began getting abused by my mother’s husband. It all happened so slow. I remember the first encounter. I was laying in bed, he Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 04 2018 6:05 AM by Child Abuse Blog

Jan 2, Suffering Chronically

I am 35 years old. I had not dealt with my childhood abuse or any of the trauma I’ve been through at all until this year. I was neglected. I was emotionally, Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 02 2018 10:03 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 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 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