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Old Codger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-23-10 09:41 PM
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13. I have seen
The results of abuse time and time again, my wife and I are foster parents and deal with these results on a daily basis, it is appalling to me that the bio parents of these children are out and about and in most cases with no repercussions for these acts.
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  -Short discussion on child abuse. Stuart G  Apr-23-10 08:10 PM   #0 
  - k&r  LWolf   Apr-23-10 08:14 PM   #1 
  - Not everyone is cut out to be a parent.  Hello_Kitty   Apr-23-10 08:14 PM   #2 
  - Well put, what you said is so true. nt  Stuart G   Apr-23-10 08:17 PM   #3 
  - +1  SocialistLez   Apr-23-10 08:17 PM   #4 
  - I'm amazed at how many people tell others.....  ProudToBeBlueInRhody   Apr-23-10 08:22 PM   #5 
  - I get that too. It helps that  SocialistLez   Apr-23-10 08:25 PM   #6 
  - What is amazing to me is so many think that they have some kind of  Stuart G   Apr-23-10 08:26 PM   #7 
  - lol misery loves company  elehhhhna   Apr-23-10 09:32 PM   #11 
  - no kidding  fishwax   Apr-24-10 11:35 AM   #28 
  - I don't want to hijack this thread because it is SO important but...  madmom   Apr-24-10 11:53 AM   #29 
     - Sounds like me.  SocialistLez   Apr-24-10 07:15 PM   #34 
     - ....and that's even more obnoxious....  ProudToBeBlueInRhody   Apr-24-10 09:07 PM   #35 
  - I am surprised that they don't then insist that if you had your own kids,  tblue37   Apr-23-10 09:34 PM   #12 
  - I'm glad you know yourself well enough to know you don't want to be a parent.  Bettie   Apr-24-10 09:20 AM   #22 
  - We don't all get the parents we deserve  elehhhhna   Apr-23-10 09:31 PM   #10 
  - No many people aren't, and they don't realize it until they have kids.  Shell Beau   Apr-23-10 09:43 PM   #15 
  - Thank you for this rop  LiberalLoner   Apr-23-10 09:01 PM   #8 
  - I have seen  Old Codger   Apr-23-10 09:41 PM   #13 
  - Thank you for taking these kids in and helping them. n/t  LiberalLoner   Apr-24-10 07:02 AM   #18 
     - surprisingly (or maybe not really)  Old Codger   Apr-24-10 09:06 AM   #20 
  - Very important...post above this..what LiberalLoner says  Stuart G   Apr-24-10 07:18 AM   #19 
  - abuse scars last forever  undergroundpanther   Apr-24-10 07:05 PM   #31 
  - You've done what you can to move past it  Bettie   Apr-24-10 09:26 AM   #23 
  - K&R  Liberal_in_LA   Apr-23-10 09:06 PM   #9 
  - What is sad also is that is it is a cycle.  Shell Beau   Apr-23-10 09:42 PM   #14 
  - I have seen this story repeated thousands of times.  Jackpine Radical   Apr-23-10 09:53 PM   #16 
     - I find that some go the complete opposite of what their parents (or whoever) were,  Shell Beau   Apr-23-10 09:56 PM   #17 
        - I've heard it said that the two most common products of abusive childhoods are  Jackpine Radical   Apr-24-10 11:24 AM   #26 
           - Actually a life of misery is it's product and it's production.  undergroundpanther   Apr-24-10 07:13 PM   #33 
              - Yes, you're exactly right.  Jackpine Radical   Apr-25-10 11:16 AM   #37 
  - I am a survivor of childhood sexual and physical abuse  Bettie   Apr-24-10 09:17 AM   #21 
  - I'm sorry for what you went through. n/t  LiberalLoner   Apr-24-10 11:19 AM   #25 
  - Hurray for great husbands...  Tikki   Apr-24-10 12:11 PM   #30 
     - You can say that again.  Bettie   Apr-24-10 11:51 PM   #36 
  - true! and it is a world wide tragedy  ensho   Apr-24-10 10:10 AM   #24 
  - and some end up abusing their own children  mrs_p   Apr-24-10 11:25 AM   #27 
     - It ends with me  undergroundpanther   Apr-24-10 07:08 PM   #32 
 

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