An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.
I was an abused kid.
I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.
The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.
I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
Somehow it seems that all parents are certain that they themselves were victims of abuse in school and that they will not allow this to happen to their children. Even though children can also be the cruelest group imaginable - especially the cutest of them.
Teens affect history. They affect lives; they affect our cultural growth and change, and yet, and at the same time, they are often the most vulnerable among us.
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