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  • 1 of 16

    by H. Mallett

    Hello my name is Jane Doe and I am a victim of abuse by my children. I know there are support groups out there. It should be called LBC Anonymous, meaning "life before children". For me the abuse started within 5 months of...read more

  • 2 of 16

    by Crystal Cook

    I know my children love me. I know they don't mean to be cruel. It's not like they do things to drive me insane on purpose . . . is it? It's a frightening thing to wake up before eight o'clock on a Saturday morning and ...read more

  • 3 of 16

    by Andrea Paulsen

    Parental abuse is a growing problem but cases of parental abuse remain largely unreported - most likely out of a sense of fear and shame. Abused parents will proudly display baby pictures and school portraits of their offs...read more

  • 4 of 16

    by Sammy Stein

    I was an abuser but now I am abused! When I was a kid I abused my parents - of course, I did not see it as such then. I just knew what to go to Mum for and what to save for Dad. For example, if I wanted some new clothes...read more

  • 5 of 16

    by Maxine Schleisner

    Ah yes the memory of young children has returned. Now mind you, I have been there with these kids, they are now over 21. I did my best and maybe it wasn't the best but we did try. I was strapped with two children wh...read more

  • 6 of 16

    by Joanne Smith

    The air stands still but my body continues to tremor. What has seemed like an eternity is finally coming to a quiet end. The lights are dim and doors are closed but my nerves remain raw and exposed. My breathing is shal...read more

  • 7 of 16

    by William Bauers

    I kicked my dad. I made him cry. I stuck a needle in his eye. I want my way. I like to rule. It's time my folks go back to school. Cause they are sooooo un-cool. I'm really proud of my poem. But, my teac...read more

  • 8 of 16

    by Themis Libra

    Raising children is a very difficult task for anyone to do - it's difficult when there's two parents and even more difficult when it's a single parent. Children these days seem to be less respectful as the generations g...read more

  • 9 of 16

    by Cindy Aniceto

    There is an unspoken problem among parents. No one wants to address this issue. I think its high time we look at this abuse. Has anyone ever thought about the abuse that parents endure at the hands of their children? ...read more

  • 10 of 16

    by Jannice Lashner

    FLUNKIE AT PARENTING 101 The following are the grades I received today pursuant to my parenting skills: Patience: F Being in Control of two Toddlers each under 40 pounds in weight: F Making sure my children were r...read more

  • 11 of 16

    by Nikki Spencer

    Penance for a Moment's Inattention One summer afternoon, I was talking on the phone with my sister in law and suddenly realized that it had grown very quiet in the house. Dangerously quiet. As I rushed to the boy's room...read more

  • 12 of 16

    by Anna Kay

    "Just hand over the Barbie fruit snacks and maybe just maybe I'll spare your other ear from permanent hearing loss." I imagine these words running across the mind of my then 2 year old as she glares at me from across the r...read more

  • 13 of 16

    by Sindy Leah Cashman

    Just a thought about being a mother, a mother of four beautiful children three girls and one boy. They are terrible two, tearful three, a whole hand five and sweet sixteen, big jump I know the sweet sixteen is from my firs...read more

  • by Michael Allen Carvell

    This problem is a crisis from both sides of abuse by parent towards children then children back toward their parent`s. This abuse between parents and their children is and on going battle to keep one from abusing the other...read more

  • 15 of 16

    by Angela Vaccaro

    Abuse by parents and their children, In todays world the abuse by the children to their parents I see is growing rapidly. Children in todays society see that the parents owe them i living and when they don't get what they ...read more

  • 16 of 16

    by Lucy Brandon

    "Look at me when you talk!", "You haf mind me when I tell you somepin"; these are things my sweet, blond preschooler tells me quite often. As a child my mother told me on a regular basis that my undesirable (to say the lea...read more

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