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I suffered from CA for many years and am only coming to terms with it now. Thing is when I believe its happening to others do you/would you report it??

I remember wishing my family had listened to me when I told them or that one of them or someone had reported it to someone who would have listened.

Thing is now a lot of us in our tight knit community have concerns about abuse ...

hi. im really confused right now. im hoping somebody here might be able to help me out. i was reading through another post (worried, is this a sign of abuse?) and well, i sort of did similar things as the boy when i was a child and im scared about what that means.

i guess i should say some of the things i did. this is really embarassing ...

I was abused by my Dad between the ages of 11 and 15, when I left home. He was and still is a very controlling and selfish man. He abused me physically, verbally and would exert his control by robbing me of any privacy. He was also very deceitful, convincing Mum I was a troublesome teenager and completely lying to her about his actions and behaviour.

This has left me with a lot of anger ...

I won't go through my whole story, but basically I was treated badly by my Dad from the age of 11 until I left home at 15. My Mum was witness to some of his bad behaviour towards me but it was nothing to what went on when it was just me and him in the house. If I told her things that had happened, Dad would always deny it. In time I learned that ...

My parents pretty much sucked, I'm not sure if my mom even knew how to care for other people. Firstly when I was little, like 5 or so, I couldn't get up on the jungle gym bar by myself, and asked my mom to help me up. But instead of carefully letting me down on there, she just dropped me on there. It was a metal bar, so it hurt alot. And then I looked ...

My 9 and a half year old son became very fond of a female family friend when he was aged 4. He has met her on a couple of occasions since- (a few evenings/days) - she doesn't live in the same country. Very recently they were watching a video together and with my daughter aged 6. The woman, now aged 40, became very upset because my son was trying to get at her breasts and ...

Lets start with this point:

Child abuse means a physical injury which is inflicted by other than accidental means on a child by another person." (Pen. Code Section 11165.6). The Law defines child abuse as: (1) Physical abuse, (2) Neglect, both general and severe, (3) Sexual abuse (4) and Emotional abuse.

In 2003, the California Department of Social Services estimated that 376,279 referrals for ...

WHenenver i am punished my mom would either beat me and threaten me and tell me that she would send me to foster care if i didnt behave.
One time my mom started beating me with a stick and i stood up and fought back. was this wrong or should i have letten her beat me
She has always lied to me about everything. Is this considered child abuse

Is it true that if we ...

Well i'll start with my brother.

He is severly abbusive. I am only 13 years old and he comes in and he tackles me till I bleed and cry so hard it gives me a headache. The worst part is my parents do nothing about it. They sit around and let it happen. I had a really bad headace earlier today and my brother "noogied" (pushed his knuckles into my brain) while I was on ...

My beautiful sweet niece Allie is 3 years old. Her mother, Nicole, who is my sister in law, is 21. Nicole moved across the country to be closer to us a little over a year ago, and since then slowly things have become worse and worse. Nicole has never once had a job since she's lived here, and has always depended on men to take care of her financially. Not only does she not work, ...