Quotes from Children

Out of respect for the children, their names are withheld. They are real. They are the victims of abuse, abuse from an abusive parent and abuse from the courts. Their voices have often been silenced but we will not silence them here.

Please listen to the children. They know the truth. They tell the truth.

"I told him it hurt but he wouldn't stop"

A little girl tying helium balloons on her bed when asked why, "So I can fly away." This child was seen tying balloon to her bicycle also for the same purpose. When told that it wouldn't work she replied, "You have to believe."

This child also requested to be glued to her bed so she wouldn't have to go to her father's.

"I cry in my heart because I can't cry out loud"

...Some of us have turned 18, and are now "free", although nightmares and painful memories will haunt us for many years, maybe forever. Some of us still have siblings in the clutches of our abusers. We are kids from all over the country who have been beaten, molested, raped, sodomized, mentally battered, isolated, terrorized, and shamed by our controlling, battering parents.

Some of us kids are not able to speak out yet, because we are still stuck with our abusers and we are too afraid of how they, and the courts, will retaliate against us and our protective parents if we speak out

Many of us suffered because the court accepted an invalid theory, Parental Alienation Syndrome (nicknamed "PAS".)

Adult survivor of child abuse and domestis violence
My mom was a NCM. My dad abused my mom, even attacked her in the front yard one night in front of the neighbors. They got divorced, my dad and his lawyers coached us heavily to stay with dad. Then she was gone. We stayed in the country club addition, she went to a one room situation at the YWCA. Then after being a take-care-of- the-kids dad for 6 months he started leaving us alone a lot, even on business trips (I was the oldest, about 12 years old, he'd leave a couple hundred $$ and go). We ended up in the catholic orphage twice, the county receiving home twice, then I was in a foster home, then a state run group home for another year and a half after the foster home, besides being out at the ranch with my uncle a couple times in between. My brother flunked 1st grade before he ended up in a series of four foster homes. My sister stayed with my dad sometimes, and my aunt other times. We all three were separated for years and hundreds of miles. I went to six high schools before I graduated. I finally got back with my mom when I was almost 17, my little brother was a few months later. My sister came to visit us a few months after that, and my dad got mad and put all of her stuff out on the front lawn and told her never come back. My mom and new step dad spent thousands and thousands trying to get us all together and with her. We all endured psychological testing several times. I remember the last MMPI I took during my mom's custodial hell, I just randomly filled in the blanks, boy did that freak them out. LOL. All this started in 1970 and I got out of the group home in 1975, at 16 almost 17.

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