Child Abuse Story From MG

by MG
(USA)

I came across this site looking through the Internet. Sadly, I have to come to realize that child abuse is far more common than people think it is. Although, I think public attitudes about whether corporal punishment is appropriate are changing for the better. As a parent, I do not use corporal punishment on my children. Perhaps, this story will shed some light on why I have made this choice.

My mother divorced my father when I was about 3 years old. I lived with my mother and my two sisters. The divorce had a bad affect on Mother. I don't blame her entirely for what happened. She was struggling to support us, and my father didn't regularly pay child support. She was an overwhelmed single mother, herself traumatized by the divorce. Still, I wish she had shown more compassion than she did. I also think because I was her only boy, she internalized many of the bad feelings she had about my father and projected them onto me.

Between the ages of 5 and 14, she regularly used corporal punishment to discipline me. And, I don't mean slapping my butt a couple of times with the palm of her hand. She used a paddle, a belt, and even a switch a couple of times.

When Mom decided I needed a spanking, she would take me to her bedroom in the evening. There in the bedroom, she'd give me a talk about what I had done wrong and why I needed the correction I was going to get. Her reasons for spanking me now seem more like excuses than reasons. Sometimes, I think she was angry, frustrated and wanted an excuse to vent her emotions. In any event, for every spanking, she'd always pull down my pants. I got some spankings on the seat of my underpants, but most were bare. When I was young, the pain bothered me the most. However, as I got older and became aware of my sexuality, embarrassment was what upset me the most.

The worst part of it though was my mother. Since my spankings usually took place before bed, she was often in some state of undress when she gave them to me. Usually, she'd have on pajamas and a nightgown. But I remember one or two where she was just wearing her bra and panties.

I consider what happened abusive. It's made for a very difficult relationship with my mother now that she is older.

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