Child Abuse: Reading from Chapter 11 Womanhood

http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/my-story-of-abuse.html Whether or not this would be considered child abuse, if you were 16 years old and didn't know what a period was, what would YOU think when you starting bleeding "down there"? Chances are, you'd think you're dying...what my grandmother's child neglect of my mother led to.

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[childabu]

Thank you for your comments. I do hope you were able to listen to not only the reading, but also my afterword. I do know that my mother did the best she could. I hope you'll listen to all of the videos. More will be posted as the weeks go by. What's important to understand is that my book is about child abuse and the devastating effects of it. I read the segment from my chapter titled Womanhood because it was one of the few times in my life my mother did something out of a sense of caring.

[saraamcgrath]

I haven't watched any of your other chapters yet, but this was interesting. I had a cousin who thought she was dying when her period came, and I couldn't believe her mother hadn't prepared her. My own young daughters already know about periods and birth, but then they have seen births and it's all contextual, I think. I'm sure that your mother meant well, and was doing as well as she could with it, even if she didn't exactly succeed in conveying some comforting information.