Children’s brains are not fully developed, so they cannot combine logical solutions. And when adults cannot handle the issue, how in the world can a child grapple with it?
Our parents are the ones who supposedly should teach us right from wrong, however, when a parent takes advantage of your innocence, you have no idea that it is wrong.
Even today, the ignorance is great and when society or authorities don’t help, who will?
In 2005, I read a report that claims that the average child victim in the United States must tell nine different people about their abuse before someone actually calls the police. (Cory Jewell Jensen, M.S. and Steve Jensen, M.A. report)
One of the explanations; children have difficulties giving a valid sustainable description of the course of events that can adequately substantiate prosecution. They don’t have the language, the time-comprehension, or the experience of human behavior. Some children don’t even understand they have been raped or molested. But they know something was done to them that weren’t right.
Mia Mattsson-Mercer Born in 1964, Sweden. Author to three books. Writing a web-column for the Magazine NARA. “That’s Amore” is my catch phrase. Finishing the manuscripts for two different books. Also HomeSchooling Mother. Worked: United States, Germany, Switzerland, Bosnien, Bulgaria, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Bahrain Founder/CEO Animals Without Limits. I am a proud Lyme disease, Child Abuse and Animal Warrior.
1 comment:
Isn't it a testament to the very nature of children that they know something *wrong* has happened even when they are too young to really understand it?
What is it about the world that takes that away from us? How can so many people rationalize away so many things that are absolutely awful?
I pray every day that my kids won't lose that inner compass they seem to have at this young age. I always want them to trust their inner voices and never be afraid to stand up for what's right, even if it is unpopular.
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