On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.
Marcia SirotaTag: reality secret denial parenting alienation hidden pretend child-abuse neglect forbidden deny abuse incest family-secrets childhood-abuse
I used to pray you know, pray to God that He would somehow stop it. All the nights of listening to my mother scream and things breaking. Of holding my brother and sister and listening to them cry and begging me to stop it.'
My voice is slow and steady like a freight train at night.
'I was too young, and we were always told that they'd put us in foster homes where people would rape us if we ever said anything. So we explained away the bruises and my mom wore big sunglasses whenever she left the house. And we invented car accidents if the bruising was too bad to cover with make-up.
Tag: fear lies secrets denial society-denial hidden siblings hiding threats abuse screaming domestic-violence physical-abuse bruises foster-home abusive-family societal-denial
she would follow her father over the horizon and down the other side, where the world lay hidden.
Alan BrennertTag: world hidden horizon other-side
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