
Suffering Passed On: Child Abuse
Check this out... Only one third of abused children go on to become abusers. Revealingly, the majority of that group deny they had been abused when they were kids. In one study, 75% of adult male abusers described events like being beaten black and blue and thrown into a basement and then said the punishment was deserved because they had been such a bad kid. To understand their denial, consider the dilemma of a small child confronted by an out-of-control adult. The child i