I Am a Victim of Child Abuse

For the past 10 years my stepdad has been emotionally and verbally abusive towards me. This abuse has stuck with me everyday. Whenever I'm at school or work I think about the things he has said to me. From calling me "worthless, a...

I was physically and sexually abused as a child.
My father is a sociopath so unlike many abused children, I never saw him fly off the handle or get angry, his abuse was controlled and calculated designed to torture myself, my...

I was not abused physically or by yelling, I was abused sexually.

I was 9, and Michael was 13. Michael was also my brother's close friend. My mom worked mornings and Michael lived right across the street from the school. My brother...

One day before my 46th birthday and my brain decides to open a door I locked and walked away from years before. I have a wonderful marriage of 16 yrs, 2 beautiful daughters, we have a family with open communication and a lot of love...

My father was a big man. A real big man. He made us feel small. He made me feel even smaller. I was the smallest and I saw that no-one else stood up to him so I knew I could not. He hit us all, and when he would beat my mother in front...

After reading some of the stories others have put here I know that my life could have been alot worse. I Have 3 older brothers and we were always moving. Most of the time it was because we were evicted from the house we were renting...

When I was 4, it all started. When I was 4..My birth mother died so it was me & my dad & my big brother. He was a cruel hard man. A week after my mom died, I had a bad dream and woke up crying. My dad came in and yelled at me to Shut Up...

As far as I can remember both my mum and dad have abused drugs and alcohol.
I was born into a family where I wasn't wanted. I was regularly left with random men whilst my parents went out.
I was regularly sexually abused by my dad and...

So my bf and I are having a really hard time right now, since the 13 when we had a really bad fight so I have been staying at my parents house not that I want to but I'm still really upset at Trey so... Now usually I get beat "I'm once...

I remember when i was five years old my family was everything; now its just a joke how i thought so. My father was stern man cruel and cold. Mother was an angel but she fell from grace fast. I have two brothers, the oldest has a...

People who know my past. Those who witnessed my childhood say I am strong. They say they're proud of me for not falling into my parents footsteps. I'm nobody special. I live in an average house with an average job, ...

when i was young my mom did alot of drugs and she had so many boyfriends who would routinely beat me by any means possible. for 16 years i have put up with getting hit, have had a table thrown at me, my own dad has pointed a loaded gun...

From the moment I born I was abused. I was born to a young mother who was not prepared to be neither a wife or mother. Her mother passed away after a dental procedure , my mother was 5, her younger sister 6 weeks. My mother became the...

My childhood wasn't always bad. It had its ups and downs, though my home life as a child was not very pleasant. I was brought up and raised to be what my father wanted me to be, a "strong man". I would be punished by him if I were to...

When I lived with my father and stepmother in my younger years, they abused me physically and emotionally on an every day basis. The rest of my family was too afraid to intervene. Eventually, my mother couldn't stand them hurting me...

I'm better now, been in therapy since 2009 and slowly getting over the shit in my life.
When I was growing up I had mixed feelings about my parents. They were caring, but controlling, I always had food on my plate and toys to play with...

Well I wudnt say dat I had gone through an extreme child abuse but yes I surely know dat I didn't had a childhood like kids of other families. Let me first start wid d details. My dad is an officer at a high n honourable post but still...

This is actually hard to choke out. I love my dad. He can be amazing.
But, its almost like he's a different person when he gets angry. And its so, so easy to get him angry. Me and my mom, we have to walk on eggshells when we talk to him...

From the outside, we were the perfect family.  But no one knew what it was like inside that house.My mother was executive director of a program that provided guardian ad-litems for children who were abused.  But there were no...