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Child Abuse Blog

Welcome to my child abuse blog.

My name is Darlene Barriere. I am a violence and abuse prevention educator. I am also a survivor of child abuse.

This child abuse blog keeps you informed about the updates on this site, and pings you when I've posted new child abuse stories, stories of healing and recovery, stories of relationship violence, child abuse articles, commentaries and other posts from visitors.

NOTE: Information pages on this site were based on material from the Canadian Red CrossCanadian Red Cross RespectED Training Program. Written permission was obtained to use their copyrighted material on this site.



Nov 6, 2009, Child Abuse Story From Anomynus For a Friend

I haven't been abused ever, but this girl in my class is incredibly sad and skinny! We had our cervical cancer jab the other day, and when she took

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Nov 5, 2009, Child Abuse Story From Dan1

I first want to thank you Darlene for having a website where we can all write down our thoughts of what happened to us victims so that we can get some

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Nov 3, 2009, Child Abuse Admission From Please Forgive

I am a shattered shell. Not because of being abused, like so many on this site, but because of abusing others. For 9 years of my life, I was a child

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Nov 3, 2009, Relationship Violence Story From Malorie

I had a boyfriend who took me out on a double date. He had been emotionally abusive, but when I finally was around a nice guy, I felt confident. I

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Nov 3, 2009, Child Abuse Story From Lighthouse

I am 36 years old and I am a victim of child abuse. Not only physically, emotionally and mentally, but also sexually. My abuse started when I was

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Nov 2, 2009, Relationship Violence Story From Shayla

I was 17 and in a relationship with a man who was 34. He was sweet to me and nice. At the time I was a runaway. I had nowhere to go and he offered me

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Nov 2, 2009, Child Abuse Story From The Boy

My story starts when I was about 13, 14 years old. I was at church one evening and there was a well-known man that was affiliated with the church I

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Nov 1, 2009, Sexual Child Abuse: What Do Boyfriends Think?

I want to start off by saying - I know this isn't an advice column - and I'm asking for a perspective, but am not interpreting it as advice for my

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Nov 1, 2009, Child Abuse Story From Jo2

For a long time, I just thought my parents were strict. I also thought that there was something wrong with me that I couldn't understand since I was

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Nov 1, 2009, Child Abuse and Another System Failure

Out Of Options:  My son is now 11 years old and lives with his father and step-mother. His father is in the army and stationed in Afghanistan,

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Oct 31, 2009, Child Abuse Story From Andrea W

Darlene, let me start by saying my sister and I had a wonderful childhood, or thought we did up until four months ago. My mother remarried when I was

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Oct 30, 2009, Child Abuse Story of Healing and Recovery From Monisha

I was alone, I was sad but I also had a hope which dragged me here to light:  I know everyone here has the same wounds that I had. When I was a

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Oct 30, 2009, Child Abuse Story From Tawnya

It was horrible frightening. I was 3 and a half when everything started. I was beaten and battered over and over! I ate dog food! It was like a

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Oct 30, 2009, Child Abuse Story From Name Undisclosed26

Wish Daddy was nice then like he is now:  My dad had some issues while I was growing up. I remember him always yelling at my mother...not too

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Oct 30, 2009, Child Abuse Story From C

Child Sexual Abuse:  It's hard to know where to begin...sometimes I feel like this didn't even happen to me, I've been holding it inside for so

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Oct 28, 2009, Child Abuse Story From Chelsea R

I'm eighteen years old. When I was eight, my innocent life was stolen from me. My body no longer my own as I seem to see it now. My step dad molested

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Oct 26, 2009, Child Abuse Story From Kay

I don't really know if what I went through was child abuse or not. But it was horrible and it still effects how I react to people, even though the

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Oct 25, 2009, Child Abuse Story From Barry M

The Man That Everybody Thought Was Great:  I asked why this happened to me. I guess I was a target because I was quiet. So thAT IS WHAT THEY SAY.

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