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Child Abuse Law
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Sharron | Report | 13 Mar 2014 08:47 |
I was reading an article in the Daily Mirror yesterday about a woman who had been horribly emotionally abused by her mother. |
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JustJohn | Report | 13 Mar 2014 08:52 |
Perhaps time we stopped saying "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me" |
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LaGooner | Report | 13 Mar 2014 09:03 |
Emotional cruelty does more harm than physical. Bruises on the flesh go but memories don't. From someone who knows :-( |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 13 Mar 2014 09:19 |
Abuse of any kind against a child should be taken seriously and be made a criminal offence. As LaGooner says bruises heal but mental scars often never heal and have regularly been proven to be the root cause of problems in later life. |
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LaGooner | Report | 13 Mar 2014 09:23 |
Very true OFITG ,a lot of things still haunt me from my childhood all thanks to my evil so called Mother. I have been told all my life that I was never wanted and that she wished I had never been born and of course lots of other hateful comments. I only went to her funeral to make sure she was really and truly dead |
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Sharron | Report | 13 Mar 2014 09:38 |
Did you have the dreams where she came back repaired? |
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LaGooner | Report | 13 Mar 2014 09:56 |
I had loads of bad dreams about her and still occasionally do. |
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Dermot | Report | 13 Mar 2014 13:06 |
Not too long ago, I remember reading a comment along the lines of 'praising children excessively can do more harm than good, especially to those with low self-esteem'. |
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LaGooner | Report | 13 Mar 2014 13:45 |
My own children and grandchildren receive praise and correction when necessary but I most definitely do not treat them in any way like my so called Mother did to me. I love them all dearly and could never be so cruel. |