From a Survivor of Haitian Child Abuse

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I am very saddened by the number of people who can so casually dismiss physical abuse as "discipline".

I grew up with an aunt who beat me for 10 years and treated me more like the house's maid than a child.

I've gotten stitches, hid bruises with long sleeves, I was kicked, punched, yelled at, degraded, and one Christmas Eve - forced to sleep outdoors.

This is not discipline.

This is abuse.

Now that I am an adult, approaching 30, all of this still affects me so very much. I still have nightmares about the abuse.

I have so much difficulty with relationships.

I've been seeing a therapist for months now just to try to keep it together.

People, please, break the cycle.

Survivor, February 26 2011, 10:30 PM

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