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Original post: The Mentality of an Abused Child
Something has been bothering me lately.
You see, I do read the comments people make about my site. Not all of them, mind you, because I eventually get bored reading about […]
Original post: The Mentality of an Abused Child
It’s easy to blame the victim, that’s why people do it.
It’s also hard to act on the behalf of another individual. As messed up as a relationship may be with their parents they still love them (to a degree). This is why abused kids get so fucked up, they can’t handle the confusion that comes when the person they love beats them or is otherwise abusive to them.
The recipient of the abuse is ashamed of it and will go to great lengths to hide it. Even if they know they will be better off with their parents in jail, that means two things: 1) society will now know they have bad parents and will thus assume they are bad children, and 2) they will affirm that their parents may not love them.
While the second part may or may not be true (a lot of parents that beat their kids say they love them), but in the mind of the child it basically severs the ties, which is not necessarily for the best especially if they get foster parents that are abusive.
BTW, having abusive parents is probably the best way to become an abusive parent…