Be a fckn parent and educate your kid, maybe?

Get roasted Karen!

Wow that just hit me hard. I still have that happen to me and I'm 43. And it absolutely crushes my soul. Just the other day I thought "wow, I seriously cannot do anything right."

Nothing toxic here, just funny

And how to use your mother's makeup to hide the bruises

I love when teenagers actually start to think for themselves, and not just repeating what they parents think

Stop the planet, I want to get off. That's the worst thing I've ever read.

My Dad cheated his Brother George out of $100 on a job at the Ford Plant. Uncle George got drunk later & took the loss out on me. When I told Dad what he did- Dad called me a liar & beat me. The next week Dad cheated him AGAIN- only THIS time... SEVERAL employees overheard George say he'd just take it out of my hide again. When he followed me into the Ladies room that time- four guys dragged him out, kicked the crud out of him, threatened to have him arrested if he ever came back & told my Dad what happened the moment he came back with our Lunches. Dad NEVER apologized to me & I never saw George again.

Some people are just not meant to be parents

oh my god

My babysitters sons raped me when I was 5. I told my mom and she told me I was a liar because they're "good boys" and if I wasn't lying, it was probably my fault anyway for being such a whore. Took me 8 more years to learn what a whore was. No amount of therapy has ever been able to get me past my trust issues. I'm 45, have never had a healthy relationship. I seek out abusive people who use me because deep down I truly believe that I am subhuman and that hate and pain is my lot in life. I have overcompensated with my kids at times because I would never ever want any of them to grow up and feel like I do.

That's beyond despicable. So awful, and I'm sorry that happened to OP. I've had a similar experience, but nowhere to that response. I was raped during a Boy Scout camping trip and told it was "normal roughhousing." What roughhousing involves someone penetrating and finishing in me?

Sorry that you had to go though that, amd your mother to do that was unjust and just a awful thing to do

My parents left the decision to report my grandmother's husband for rape up to a very scared and embarrassed 12 year old. I have never forgiven my parents for that. It is not something you leave up to a 12 year old to determine, they should have gone to the cops as soon as they found out. My sister has forgiven my parents for a lot of things, I will hold that grudge against them until the day I die. My sister has forgiven enough, I will hold the grudges on her behalf.

Terrible! I am curious to know about the relationship between the mother and daughter now. I do not believe that children are obligated to love their parents no matter what.

This is really common in Latin American communities, and probably others, though I can only speak for mine. It’s so damaging and yes, very sad. Parenting classes and education should be a part of prenatal care. The parents dismissing their children are sometimes victims of childhood rape and abuse themselves. I had to live with my abuser for 18 years. My mother told me I was being dramatic when I told her what was happening. Eventually she bought me a lock for my door (I was 16)...but that was the extent of her interventions and I know I’m lucky to have at least gotten that. No child should ever go through this, and it is so underreported because we begin to think it’s normal for the sake of our own survival. Society needs to step the f**k up and start taking better care of each other.

When I was 7 I told my mom that a neighbor had sexually assaulted me. My mom couldn't begin to imagine that an 18 year old girl could even do such a thing, let alone one she kind of knew. It was easier to believe I made it up. I didn't get punished for "lying" but she told me she was disappointed in me. That really hurt.