Pretend for one moment that you are no longer yourself. Visualize instead that you are a young girl; old enough to know right from wrong yet still young enough to be terrified by the dark shadows in your room. It is a cold winter night and your parents have opted to attend a party, which you are not allowed at. "It will be fine," they say. Although you already know what is to come. Your uncle comes over to watch you for the evening, and your parents are so pleased by the fact that they do not have to find a sitter. The nightmare begins. You can feel his eyes gazing through your clothes every time that he looks at you. You feel dirty and violated every time you think about what he does to you when you are alone. He walks over to the couch and sits down next to you. His hand slithers it way onto your knee and you cringe in disgust. Your mind feels panicky as you feel his touch in more intimate places and you scream involuntarily. His grip tightens as he places his hand over y!
             our mouth. "We'll have to do this the hard way!" His massive body is on top of yours, and you feel so powerless. Eventually, you sink into a sobbing heap and simply wait for his passions to stop. You wait for the nightmare to end. It is all your fault...
             Just because a child is abused as an adolescent, does this necessarily mean he or she will grow up to abuse his or her kids? In many circumstances, yes it does. Abuse is a positive feedback loop, in which what a child learns or experiences when they are young, they will most likely repeat when they are older. In this way, abuse is very much a self-fulfilling prophesy, or circle problem. . If a child is led to believe that this sort of behavior is "normal" then they most likely will learn it, and repeat it on there own children. If someone is always insulting you, always telling you that you are no good: then with time, your mind bec
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