http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-effects-blog.html My child abuse blog keeps you informed about the updates on this www.child-abuse-effects.com site and lets you know when I've posted a new child abuse story, article or commentary. Subscribe here. en-us child abuse Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:13:55 GMT Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:13:55 GMT child-abuse-effects.com http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-carter.html The 15-year-old boy trembled as the man touched him, to pull him closer. He thinks that it can't last very long this time because they were in the Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:13:34 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-jess-d.html I grew up in Leominster, Massachusetts. I want to share my story because I have been quiet for most of my life. I was raped over and over again by a Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:49:47 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-amanda-k1.html Honestly, it's hard to figure out where to start. I'm 17 years old now and it all began when I was only 6 years old. It started out as just touching Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:13:42 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-s1.html When I was growing up I was raped and molested by both of my grandfathers. The one on my dad's side had been doing it since I was 5, or at least Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:38:53 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-anonymous37.html I don't know what happened:  For starters, I don't know who it was, how old I was or what happened. All I remember is that it was dark and there Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:10:57 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-the-lonely-girl.html I am a victim of emotional abuse. Not so bad, no marks no pain right? Wrong. Never being touched can be just as hurtful. No hugs, no love. They Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:38:44 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-norma-p.html Abused as a child:  Well, mine is a long story. I suffered child abuse, for many years, at the hands of my foster parents. First, my mother Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:23:55 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-f.html She stands facing the corner. Don't move. Don't breathe. Her feet are aching. She's been here for hours. She knows she won't be moving until she gets Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:53:06 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-name-undisclosed28.html Drugs always win:  Since my brother and I were small children my parents have been drug addicts-eating/snorting painkillers, Oxycotin and other Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:30:09 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-elisabeth.html Child abuse effect on adulthood:  My abuse started when I was 6. First just physical and verbal from my stepfather, my mum married. I didn't like Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:21:04 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-angela1.html My mother's secrets:  My parents who were both alcoholics divorced when I was five. My mother sadly was granted physical custody. My mother took Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:56:00 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-lynn.html I have never had the guts to tell anybody this and I don't know if it actually affected my life as it is now, but I feel that it does in some odd way. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:17:38 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-name-undisclosed27-part-2.html The Truth:  As I got older things only got worse. The only thing that started to become clear to me was that the way they treated me was so Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:51:06 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-name-undisclosed27-part-1.html The Truth:  I think my memory of what you would define today as 'abuse' started as early as kindergarten. My story goes like this. My mother (a Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:49:38 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-phyllis.html Old woman and still haven't forgot:  My earliest abuse memory is when I was 3 years old. My dad came home drunk and put me and my 2-year-old Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:09:14 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-anne1.html I was the china doll in my family. It was relatives abused me. On a family holiday at Easter. I was 4. It went on until I was 6. I was so young and no Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:49:05 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/my-best-friends-child-abuse-story.html I had a very good friend up until February 4th 2007. She lived with her mother and two brothers. At first when she would tell me things it didn't Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:03:30 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-hastina.html Small Things She's Done:  I lay in my bed, staring at the ceiling wondering what I did to deserve this, when I moved to my side and felt a sharp Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:41:15 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-kathy2.html I am 26 now and I still get funny feelings in my stomach when it pops into my head. I was very young, maybe 2 or 3 when it happened. My uncle molested Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:45:50 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-nic-part-1.html My abuse started when my mom was 22 and I was 6. My Mom was an alcoholic and she couldn't take care of me, no more than she could take care of Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:14:20 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-anomynus-for-a-friend.html 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 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:06:14 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-dan1.html 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 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:38:44 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-admission-from-please-forgive.html 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 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:38:53 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/relationship-violence-story-from-malorie.html 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 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:35:44 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-lighthouse.html 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 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:31:44 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/relationship-violence-story-from-shayla.html 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 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:33:22 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-the-boy.html 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 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:28:18 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/sexual-child-abuse-what-do-boyfriends-think.html 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 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:03:28 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-jo2.html 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 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:53:42 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-and-another-system-failure.html 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, Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:28:13 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-andrea-w.html 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 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:44:00 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-of-healing-and-recovery-from-monisha.html 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 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:50:34 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-tawnya.html 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 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:21:25 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-name-undisclosed26.html 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 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:16:47 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-c.html 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 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:59:37 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-chelsea-r.html 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 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:43:56 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-kay.html 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 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:58:06 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-barry-m.html 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. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:18:13 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-vlm.html I was 6 years old when it started in foster care, with foster cousins in their early 20's I think maybe older. I sat down the floor to play Mario Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:46:49 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-christina-o.html AKA the bad preacher's kid:  Life is very fuzzy from the beginning. I remember so much but I can't seem to put it in order. I was adopted at the Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:20:42 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-kaylee.html First, EMOTIONAL My mother and father weren't married when they conceived/gave birth to me, so I guess he felt he had no need to be at my birth. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:36:52 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-chantal.html Emotion abuse story:  I was the youngest of four children, all girls. My father had very explosive anger problems and was fairly emotionally Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:47:01 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-cost-my-son-everything-page-12.html There are so many little things that I hear Paul saying from the past. It wasn't until after his death that I finally understood some of these things: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:40:05 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-kennesaw-poem-2.html Die Sweet Child Kennesaw I've watched men die, held their hand, heard their final breath. Men who had proved themselves, men who had passed their Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:52:42 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/five-children-die-each-day-from-child-abuse-and-neglect-in-usa-report.html EXPERTS ASK CONGRESS FOR FUNDING, CONSISTENT STANDARDS: Celebrities from 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' join child advocates on Capitol Hill to Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:31:32 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-shayla.html When I was younger, my mom and dad fought constantly. They were both alcoholics and drug addicts. I remember as a little girl, my mom always having Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:28:19 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-kimberly-part-5.html I know I keep writing here. Thank you Darlene for posting my stories on here. Your site is truly something that can help so many people. There is a Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:25:35 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-cost-my-son-everything-page-11.html Paul didn't die from this horrific attempt. For some reason God didn't think he was quite ready. He went from a psych ward to a mental institution. He Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:51:15 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-in-the-hands-of-cps.html Be careful...they will say you abused your child when he reacts to being removed from you:  When my soon to be ex husband's girlfriend started Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:28:31 GMT http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-abuse-story-from-l-for-my-friend.html Not abused but I think my friend is:  I have a friend, I'll call him 'B', and today he told me that his dad is a f****n a*s, and I asked him why. Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:15:21 GMT