you feel forced into silence when you deal with child abuse becuz you do not want to let your parents down or get them angry at you once more. you feel as if it is your fault anyways and by voicing hat happened would force people to look at you and think (in your own mind) i wonder what she/he did to desevre that. of any other abuse it is basically the same thing; pure, unaltered, deafening guilt. you should speak up about it though and let people know what happened...

Ok, there are things that make this opinion seem just one sided, but I will try to make it two... Most people that have dealt with any kind of abuse feel ashamed of what happened to themselves. I have dealt with neglet and emotion abuse... With the emotional abuse, I let it get to me and I am ashamed of it. I dont like it, but I still experienced it. I feel too ashamed to talk about it to anyone because of where it led me... That is why there are so many who dont voice abuse, they just feel too ashamed about it. I think that 'we' should just voice it and accept what happened. Not be ashamed.

um..well I have to put my response to this subject... I have been threw abuse..and i know that one of the rules i'd hear daily from my parents was " What happens in this house..stays in this house"..My parents used to tell me that if i talked about what happened that bad people would come and take me somewhere worse...I also didnt know that was going on was wrong...then of course there was the threats..dont tell because no one will believe you they will believe me and hate you. which actually is true because they still dont want to believe me..but anyways Children who are being abused are all forced into silence by there abusers..in one way or another..and as a child most of the time you dont understand what is happening to you..i grew up with abuse and just assumed it was how everyone lived...actually until i was about 13 i didnt know that i was being abused..i tough i had a "normal" familly...but i know now that i was wrong..But my point is that all child abuse victims are silenced by their pain by mostly fear, confussion, shame and guilt...children will often blame themselves..i did and was told that i was bad and needed to be disciplined..but anyways i have rambled enough..i just wanted to help give a bit of clarity..hope i helped a bit...thanks for reading and goodbye.

~Chissy~