Abusive Parents

My step father was an abusive parent. Physically and a little mentally. My mom finally divorced him when i was a teen, but not even a year later she married another man that was abusive as well. To my mom he was extremely mentally and emotionally abusive. He was to us too! Eventually my mom kicked me out when I was 16 because her huband didn't like me. Hello! I am her daughter, but yet she chose to keep him and lose me!! I haven't forgave her for it yet. She is very two faced and thinks she is better than everyone else. I tried talking to my mom one time about it because I wanted to resolve it and move on, but she talked like it was yesterday and that it was all my Fault!! 10 yrs later and she still can't have an adult to adult talk about it! I don't think I will ever forgive her for it.

My dad was mentally and emotionally abusive, and i was mad about it for a long time, but he has passed away, and i have moved on. It really messed me up for a long time.. i drank a lot and really abused all my friends emotionally too.. pushed everyone away.. I am much better now though and i dont think he'd have changed if he hadn't passed away.. my mother finally left him when i was 14 or 15.. i wish she'd had the strength to do it earlier in our lives.. but what is done is done and the past is the past.

i didnot have abusive parents but i have heard from my friends who had abusive parents .one mother used to give her kid to eat only in rations telling she will grow fat later on ,if she eats now.

I didn't have abusive parents when I was growing up. My mom was very strict though and I got my fair share of whippings. My dad whipped me one time and cried afterwards.

I had one abusive parent, my mom was great and I wish I could say the same about my real father, but I cant. He sexually, mentally and physically abused my mom. I got into the middle of it a lot but he never once hit me. He was mentally abusive to me but that was it. My mom said that I would protect her. I remember a few times I did but she said I started when I was young and he would just stop when I started. We had to sleep in the car on back roads often so he wouldn't find us and we were chased one time with him shooting at us. Yes he was an evil man. I haven't talked to him for almost 18 years! Before that it was only in passing. The best thing my mom ever did was leave him even if we had no money most of the time!

I am fortunate not to have abusive parents. I was born in a family where both the parents were emotionally mature, wise and gentle people. It is a pity that there are families in which children are abused, be it physically or mentally. The government should make strict laws regarding this.

This breaks my heart, StrawberryK. Seems like there's a lot of healing to be done. I was raised by two fantastic people. Both my mom and dad were POWs in WWII but somehow none of that baggage ever interfered with being good parents. No child should have to go through what you've gone through. I pray your mom might find the strength to change.

I had a wonderful upbringing. I was only spanked once in my entire life and it was because my sister and I went past the corner store and we knew we weren't suppose to go past the store. It was actually a little spank on our butt, but we both thought it was horrible because we had never gotten in trouble like that before. I am sorry to hear that so many have grown up with abusive parents. Hopefully you change the cycle and when yhou have children never are abusive to them.

My Mum and Dad raised us to be independent and get on with life,we always had enough to eat and my mum used to make cakes taught us to cook and look after our selves and loved it when we did well, she never did birthday parties or celebrated out birthdays like other parents did ,It was just another day to them,but that was the way they were.What you saw was what you got with my mum she used to be proud of us and used to make sure she had regular photos done of us,She took us out to the park and long walks in the country so like i said some things was not perfect but other things were perfect and on the whole she did a good job we are not involved in any trouble with the police we always had a warm coat and good shoes.We went on holidays everyear and went down the seaside on a sunday during the summer,and she also used to take us swimming during the school holidays and as a special treat we went to the cinema and that was with dad as well as a family treat so on the whole I had a good time.And am grateful to her and dad as well or spent most of his time at work.