Chid Abuse Is Real

     It seems like I always read books or watch movies where some child is abused by a parent. Recently, I read A Child Called It by David Pelzer. David says, “My two brothers and I were blessed with the perfect parents. Our every whim was fulfilled with love and care.” David is referring to the very early years of his childhood, before his mother began to abuse him. Basically that explains that any parent could snap.  I also watched the movie Precious where Mary says, "Oh, so you're going to stand up there and look down at me like you're a woman? You don't know what real woman do! Real women sacrifice! (throws glass at Precious, which shatters at her feet) Now, laugh at that, fat bitch."
 She treats Precious like she is not a person. When children are physically and emotionally abused, that is usually how they are treated, if not worse.
     Sometimes, parents will hurt their children when something bad is happening to them as a way of letting it out. "Ever since I can remember I had never had the love or attention of my parents. My mom was more worried about looking pretty and making sure my dad wasn't cheating on her than her 3 daughters," says Tiffany. Tiffany's mother did not want to listen to her daughters about the sexual abuse the girls were going through due to their father. She brushed it off, often like most stories I hear, because she wanted to keep her marriage alive. I read an article that said, "It didn’t matter what I did, I would get in trouble for the slightest perceived offense. The problem was, you never knew what would be the offending action. No one gave you “the rules.” They were made up on the fly, by someone who was either drunk or in a psychotic episode. And they weren’t something you could learn by experience because they changed." It seems like every case is like that, where the kid never knows what to expect. The abuser just makes up what they want to do as they go, no matter how much they hurt the child.

http://www.hiddenhurt.co.uk/tiffany_child_abuse_and_domestic_violence_story.html
http://www.childabusestories.org/articles/my-first-step-of-healing-child-abuse
http://www.novelguide.com/Childcalledit/toptenquotes.html
http://www.allsubs.org/search-movie-quotes/precious/