Dear Dish-It Gives Advice on Abuse

April is the National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Every April, Child Abuse Prevention Month is an opportunity to learn about the signs of child abuse and how to prevent it. Communities around the nation come together to support families and children by reinforcing strategies that are working and by providing resources and activities to help end child abuse and neglect. In honor of this, this week’s “Talk about it Tuesday” is regarding abuse. May we help to build a community of hope for this very important, and life threatening cause. There is great power within communities, and they can help address the issue of abuse/neglect, acknowledging practices related to advocating for child and family well-beings, as well as keeping our children safe to guarantee that they grow up to fulfill their true potential and believe in their abilities free from abuse.

Let’s Take a Look at This Week’s Questions:

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month

Question by ddq1

"I’m 15 years old and my dad hits me. I know he loves me, but I don’t know why he has to hit me though. This week my dad and I went to the high school to ask about my grades. I wasn’t trying, and I was slacking. He told me to follow him. He then pushed me and was yelling at me. Then he grabbed my shirt and put his face in mine and said I want to kill you right now. He let go and smacked me in the face. Then he calmed down and talked about why I’m failing. Later that day when he drove me home he said if I didn’t try in school he would send me back to my mom’s house and never talk to me again and write me out of his will. Now he’s perfectly fine. What should I do?"

Advice/Insight:

It sounds like your dad has some issues that he needs to work out because this kind of behavior is not okay. Beating you, verbally abusing you, threatening you with death and other things. It all sounds very toxic. Though, your right, your dad does love you, but it appears as though he is showing his love, and expressing it in the wrong ways. This can’t be good for your self-esteem or mental health. I’m sure you feel very hurt by all of this, wondering why your dad has to react this way to you? Sometimes people transfer their own stress onto others, and it’s not healthy or an excuse, but from the sounds of it, your dad has a lot of anger issues that he needs to sort through. You shouldn’t have to be subjected to this kind of environment, because even if your dad doesn’t severely injure you physically, he is shredding apart your self-esteem. Also, it seems like you never know what he is going to do next and that is especially dangerous. He is making you very afraid of what could happen (making you live in fear), unhappy and unsafe in your own home. This isn’t right. Please read the “Afterthoughts” at the end of the article to learn how you can proceed about telling someone trusted, and getting the help that you need in the right way.

Question by justme

"I think my mom is abusive. the thing is it's only sometimes. usually, she only curses and makes threats. But once she pulled my hair and forcefully grabbed me. Now it's happening more often, like I hurt my toe and it really, really hurt to walk, so I was pushing for her to pick me up with the car, [because] we were at the movie theater and the car was far away, then she got really angry and dragged me outside for a mean lecture that included calling me a stupid child and threatening to leave me behind if I didn't hurry up. then she said she would slap the s**t out of me the next time this I did something like this and then she slammed my arm on the car forcefully. I had a huge bruise! what do I do? I’m scared!"


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